A defense or safeguard.
A defensive wall or rampart.
A breakwater.
Any means of defence or security.
The planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale that reduces the likelihood of seas washing over the gunwales and people being washed overboard.
To fortify something with a wall or rampart.
To provide protection of defense for something.
Security from damage, loss, or penalty.
An obligation or duty upon an individual to incur the losses of another.
The right of an injured party to shift the loss onto the party responsible for the loss.
A principle of insurance which provides that when a loss occurs, the insured should be restored to the approximate financial condition occupied before the loss occurred, no better, no worse.
Repayment; compensation for loss or injury.