To provide protection of defense for something.
To fortify something with a wall or rampart.
A defensive wall or rampart.
A defense or safeguard.
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 transfer responsibility or attention of (something) (to someone); to stop being concerned with.
To cause, to result in.
To let be or do without interference.
To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (something) entirely.
To transfer possession of after death.
To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.
To produce leaves or foliage.
To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver, with a sense of withdrawing oneself.
To give (something) to someone; to deliver (something) to a repository; to deposit.
To depart; to go away from a certain place or state.
To depart from; to end one's connection or affiliation with.
To end one's membership in (a group); to terminate one's affiliation with (an organization); to stop participating in (a project).
The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball.
The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether the next shooter — who may be either the same player, or an opponent — has good options, or only poor ones).
Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.
Permission.