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bulwark Tweet Definition of bulwark Like Definition of bulwark on Facebook
noun 
  1. a defensive wall or rampart
  2. a defense or safeguard
  3. a breakwater
  4. (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.
Translations: 
    verb 
    1. (transitive) to fortify something with a wall or rampart
    2. (transitive) to provide protection of defense for something
    Etymology: bolwerk. Cognates include boulevard and baluarte.

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