pavesades

Turkish galleys had only low bulwarks, the galleys of the allied fleet were provided with _pavesades_, large bucklers and shields, to be fitted along the bulwarks when clearing for action, and also permanent cross barriers to prevent a raking fire fore and aft.

Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima John Richard Hale

_pavesades_, [27] and ballasted the flagship a trifle more.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 11 of 55 1599-1602 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century Edward Gaylord Bourne 1884