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 front of the prow of a ship or boat.
The anterior prolongation of the head of a gastropod; a rostrum.
The nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc.
The long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs.
Tobacco; cigarettes.
The terminus of a glacier.
A butterfly in the nymphalid subfamily Libytheinae, notable for the snout-like elongation on their heads.
A person's nose.
A police informer.
The anterior prolongation of the head of weevils and allied beetles; a rostrum.
To furnish with a nozzle or point.