bulwark
- Noun. A defensive wall or rampart.
- Noun. A defense or safeguard.
- Noun. A breakwater.
- 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.
- Verb. (transitive) To fortify something with a wall or rampart.
- Verb. (transitive) To provide protection of defense for something.
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