A breakwater.
A defensive wall or rampart.
A defense or safeguard.
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.
The mouth of a river.
Water pumped into and out of mills, especially woolen mills.
A load.
To transfer (molten glass) from the pot to the forming table, in making plate glass.
To use a ladle or dipper to remove something (generally water).
To weigh down, oppress, or burden.
To admit water by leakage.
To fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment).