bulwark
IPA: bˈʊɫwɝk
noun
- A defensive wall or rampart.
- A defense or safeguard.
- A breakwater.
- (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.
- (figurative) Any means of defence or security.
verb
- (transitive) To fortify something with a wall or rampart.
- (transitive) To provide protection of defense for something.
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Examples of "bulwark" in Sentences
- The bulwark eventually collapsed.
- Above the bulwark is a terrace with six turrets.
- Bulwark joined the Channel Fleet on 3 October 1908.
- To them the Leagues were a bulwark of this corrupt regime.
- The Acropolis of the town was strengthened by defence bulwarks.
- Ocean, Albion and Bulwark form the core of the amphibious force.
- Jakobek was for many years a bulwark of the council's right wing.
- Ommerschans is a former bulwark in the Dutch province of Overijssel.
- However, in 1979, Bulwark was recommissioned in the anti submarine role.
- All rely on that bulwark of democracy, tolerance of the feelings of others.
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