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.
A place on a shoreline where a boat lands.
An arrival at a surface, as of an airplane or any descending object.
A level area at the top of a flight of stairs, or connecting one flight with another.