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 side of the ship away from the wind.
A protected cove or harbor, out of the wind.
A sheltered place, especially a place protected from the wind by some object; the side sheltered from the wind (see also leeside); shelter; protection.
Facing away from the flow of a fluid, usually air.