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 man-made landing place for ships on a shore or river bank.
The bank of a river, or the shore of the sea.
To place on a wharf.
To secure by a wharf.