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noun

Bulkhead n.

(Naut.) A partition in a vessel, to separate apartments on the same deck.

A structure of wood or stone, to resist the pressure of earth or water; a partition wall or structure, as in a mine; the limiting wall along a water front.

Bulked line, a line beyond which a wharf must not project; usually, the harbor line.

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Etymology of 'Bulkhead'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bulkhead" Quotes from Famous Books

... population have been steadily developed and reinforced by artificial ones. For the ships of the world she has built about her water-front more than three hundred piers and bulkheads. Allowing berth-room for four ships in each bulkhead, and for one at the end of each pier, (decidedly an under-estimate, considering the extent of some of these structures,)—the island water-front already offers accommodation for the simultaneous landing of eight hundred first-class ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 • Various

Words linked to "Bulkhead" : ship, partition