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n.
That which fends off attack or danger; a defense; a protection; a cover; security; shield.
n.
An elastic apparatus or fender, for deadening the jar caused by the collision of bodies; as, a buffer at the end of a railroad car.
v. t. & i.
A screen to prevent coals or sparks of an open fire from escaping to the floor.
n.
A quantity of rope-yarn, or the like, placed, as a fender, on the bow of a boat.
v. i.
To act on the defensive, or in opposition; to resist; to parry; to shift off.
v. t.
To fend off danger from; to give security to; to protect; to guard.
n.
To fend off; to repel; to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches; -- usually followed by off.
n.
A frame or fender of rope or junk, laid out at the sides or bows of a vessel to secure it from injury by floating ice.
v. t. & i.
Anything serving as a cushion to lessen the shock when a vessel comes in contact with another vessel or a wharf.
v. t. & i.
Anything set up to protect an exposed angle, as of a house, from damage by carriage wheels.
v. t.
To keep off; to prevent from entering or hitting; to ward off; to shut out; -- often with off; as, to fend off blows.
a.
Fiendlike.
n.
A pad or cushion forming the end of a fender, which receives the blow; -- sometimes called buffing apparatus.
n.
A fiend.
v. t. & i.
A screen to protect a carriage from mud thrown off the wheels: also, a splashboard.
imp. & p. p.
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v. t.
To defend from the weather; to shelter.
p. pr. & vb. n.
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v. t. & i.
One who or that which defends or protects by warding off harm
n.
Large fenders hung over a vessel's side to protect it in handling a cargo.
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