the act, process or an instance of protecting, guarding or saving.

a kind of necklace.

a thread made by twisting or intertwining several strings.

a particular kind in hunting wild animals.

a single long cloth used to cover the privy parts, as by a male ascetic or, poor men in warm climates; a loin cloth.

movement of the body or limbs used as a rhetorical or dramatic device to express one's thought or feeling.

a proper or orderly arrangement.

a strategic arrangement of troops.

any of the the notched extremities of a bow.

(gen.) the extreme end of anything.

a small fixed wheel, turning in a block, with a grooved rim in which a rope or chain runs, as to raise or lower a weight attached at one end by pulling on or releasing, the other end; a pulley.

(dial.) a kind of bag made of woven or plaited hemp, straw, rope, etc.

a small compartment in a cupboard.

a regular payment of money, etc., made by one ruler or nation to another as acknowledgment of subjugation, for protection from invasion, etc.; tribute.

a hole, pit in the ground made to catch wild animals.

a deep, broad ditch dug around a farm, garden etc. for avoiding cattle coming in.

a water way for excess rain water to flow out of a areca field.