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Definition of Bulwark

1. Noun. An embankment built around a space for defensive purposes. "They blew the trumpet and the walls came tumbling down"

2. Verb. Defend with a bulwark.

3. Noun. A fencelike structure around a deck (usually plural).

4. Noun. A protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away.

Definition of Bulwark

1. n. A rampart; a fortification; a bastion or outwork.

2. v. t. To fortify with, or as with, a rampart or wall; to secure by fortification; to protect.

Definition of Bulwark

1. Noun. A defensive wall or rampart. ¹

2. Noun. A defense or safeguard. ¹

3. Noun. A breakwater. ¹

4. Noun. (nautical) The planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale that reduces the likelihood of seas washing over the gunwales and people being washed overboard. ¹

5. Verb. (transitive) To fortify something with a wall or rampart. ¹

6. Verb. (transitive) To provide protection of defense for something. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bulwark

1. to fortify with a defensive wall [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bulwark

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bulses bultfonteinite bulti bultow bultows bulwark (current term) bulwarked bulwarking bulwarks bum's rush

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Literary usage of Bulwark

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Practical Shipbuilding: A Treatise on the Structural Design and Building of by A. Campbell Holms (1918)
"In Bailing-ships the bulwark must be specially strong, for as the leeward one is usually close to the sea level, it is exposed to blows and pressures from ..."

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