A surrounding area or place (especially of an urban settlement); an environment.
To cover, enclose, or envelop (someone or something).
To encircle or surround (someone or something).
Of a person: to be positioned or stationed around (someone or something) to attend to or protect them.
To encircle or surround (someone or something) so as to attack from all sides; to beset.
Of a situation or state of affairs, especially danger or trouble: to happen to and affect (someone or something).
Followed by from: to hide or shield (someone or something).
A ridge or berm at a perimeter
The green border of a field, dug up in order to carry the earth onto other land to improve it.
A line of snow left behind by the edge of a snowplow’s blade.
A long snowbank along the side of a road.
A line of leaves etc heaped up by the wind.
A similar streak of seaweed etc on the surface of the sea formed by Langmuir circulation.
A line of gravel left behind by the edge of a grader’s blade.
A row of cut grain or hay allowed to dry in a field.
To arrange (e.g. new-made hay) in lines or windrows.