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Word: bulwark (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • A breakwater.
  • A defense or safeguard.
  • A defensive wall or rampart.
  • 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.

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Verb:

  • transitive To fortify something with a wall or rampart.
  • transitive To provide protection of defense for something.

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