A cloth or piece of leather worn on the forepart of the body, to keep the clothes clean, or defend them from injury.

The fat skin covering the belly of a goose.

In gunnery, a flat piece of lead that covers the vent of a cannon.

In ships, a piece of curved timber, just above the foremost end of the keel.

A platform, or flooring of plank, at the entrance of a dock, on which the dock gates are shut.

A piece of lether or other thing to be spread before a person riding in a gig, chaise or sulky, to defend him from rain, snow or dust.