- Buttressed
- Defensive
- Motherly
- Waterproof or heatproof, perhaps
- Affording protection; sheltering; defensive.
- Defensive ditch
- Ditch
- Ditch with deep sides
- Ditch with steep aides
- Ditch with steep sides
- Long, narrow ditch
- Man-made gutter
- Bring up sentry as protection for tailender
- Defensive (action)
- Last line of defence
- Troops protecting the back of a retreating army
- Barge into sections of defensive walls
- Defensive embankments
- Fortifications
- defensive porthole
- An embrace.
- A splay of a door or window.
- An aperture with slant sides in a wall or parapet,
through which cannon are pointed and discharged; a crenelle. See
Illust. of Casemate.