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.
A defensive wall or rampart.
A defense or safeguard.
A breakwater.
Any means of defence or security.
To fortify something with a wall or rampart.
To provide protection of defense for something.
The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.
The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
lant; urine
The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and acquired and on which buildings and structures can be built and erected.
On a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
realm, domain.
In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, such as the level part of a millstone between the furrows.
A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.
A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
A country or region.
A shock or fright.
The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.
To succeed in having sexual relations with; to score
(of a blow) To deliver.
To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
To come into rest.
To arrive on land, especially a shore or dock, from a body of water.
To acquire; to secure.
To go down well with an audience.
To bring to land.
(of a punch) To connect
To capture or arrest.