Synonym of the word BREAKWATER

n. a construction in or around a harbour designed to break the force of the sea and to provide shelter for…
n. (nautical) a low bulkhead across the forecastle deck of a ship which diverts water breaking over the bows…
n. On beaches: a wooden or concrete barrier, usually perpendicular to the shore, intended to prevent the…

n. A structure that bars passage.
n. An obstacle or impediment.
n. A boundary or limit.
n. (grammar) A node (in government and binding theory) said to intervene between other nodes A and B if it…
n. (physiology) A separation between two areas of the body where specialized cells allow the entry of certain…

n. A defensive wall or rampart.
n. A defense or safeguard.
n. A breakwater.
n. (nautical) The planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale that reduces…
v. (transitive) To fortify something with a wall or rampart.
v. (transitive) To provide protection of defense for something.

n. The crease or depression of the human body at the junction of the trunk and the thigh, together with the…
n. The area adjoining this fold or depression.
n. (architecture) The projecting solid angle formed by the meeting of two vaults.
n. (euphemistic) The genitals.
n. (geometry) The surface formed by two such vaults.
v. To deliver a blow to the genitals.
v. (architecture) To build with groins.
v. To grunt; to growl; to snarl; to murmur.
n. Alternative spelling of groyne.

n. A (usually wooden) structure that projects from a coastline to prevent erosion, longshore drift etc.;…

n. A structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor…
n. A wharf or dock extending from the shore.
n. (architecture) A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest, and overhangs the wall below.
v. (obsolete, intransitive) To jut out; to project.
adj. (archaic) Made of jet, or like jet in color.

n. A pigmented spot on the skin, a naevus, slightly raised, and sometimes hairy.
n. Any of several small, burrowing insectivores of the family Talpidae.
n. Any of the burrowing rodents also called mole rats.
n. (espionage) An internal spy, a person who involves himself or herself with an enemy organisation, especially…
n. A kind of self-propelled excavator used to form underground drains, or to clear underground pipelines.
n. A type of underground drain used in farm fields, in which a mole plow creates an unlined channel through…
n. A moll, a bitch, a slut.
n. (nautical) A massive structure, usually of stone, used as a pier, breakwater or junction between places…
n. (rare) A haven or harbour, protected with such a breakwater.
n. (chemistry, physics) In the International System of Units, the base unit of amount of substance; the amount…
n. A hemorrhagic mass of tissue in the uterus caused by a dead ovum.
n. One of several spicy sauces typical of the cuisine of Mexico and neighboring Central America, especially…

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