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noun

Bulwark n.

(Fort.) A rampart; a fortification; a bastion or outwork.

That which secures against an enemy, or defends from attack; any means of defense or protection. "The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense,... the floating bulwark of our island."

pl. (Naut.) The sides of a ship above the upper deck, usually a fencelike structure around the deck.

Synonyms: See Rampart.

verb

Bulwark v. t. (past & past part. bulwarked; pres. part. bulwarking) To fortify with, or as with, a rampart or wall; to secure by fortification; to protect. "Of some proud city, bulwarked round and armed With rising towers."

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... into a corner. "Sears-Roebuck are very tactless," she declared. "Everything they have to offer reminds one of home. What do you think of home, Ban? Home, as an abstract proposition. Home as the what-d'you-call-'em of the nation; the palladium—no, the bulwark? Home as viewed by the homing pigeon? Home, Sweet Home, as sung by—Would you answer, Ban, if I stopped gibbering and gave you ...

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... dead! Still forever is the pen whose wondrous alchemy transposed the English language—with all its inherent harshness—into music sweet as song of Israfil. Stilled is the heart that stood alone, defiant, a bulwark 'gainst the wave of corruption that is engulfing ...

— Volume 12 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann

... station, we drove for some miles through the remains of widespread woods, which were once part of that great forest which for so long held the Saxon invaders at bay—the impenetrable "weald," for sixty years the bulwark of Britain. Vast sections of it have been cleared, for this is the seat of the first iron-works of the country, and the trees have been felled to smelt the ore. Now the richer fields of the North have absorbed ...

— The Return of Sherlock Holmes • Arthur Conan Doyle

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