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 warship intended to sink other ships by ramming them.
A piston powered by hydraulic pressure.
A weight which strikes a blow, in a ramming device such as a pile driver, steam hammer, or stamp mill.
A reinforced section of the bow of a warship, intended to be used for ramming other ships.
An act of ramming.
A battering ram; a heavy object used for breaking through doors.
A male sheep, typically uncastrated.
Rancid; offensive in smell or taste.
To thrust during sexual intercourse.
To fill or compact by pounding or driving.
To strike (something) hard, especially with an implement.
To collide with (an object), usually with the intention of damaging it or disabling its function.
To seat a cartridge, projectile, or propellant charge in the breech of a firearm by pushing or striking.