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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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Etymology of 'Bulwark'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... legal institutions that have claimed a Saxon origin, none compares for importance with that of trial by jury. This has been called the bulwark of English liberty, and it has been assigned to King Alfred as the general founder of great institutions. But this is ...

— Anglo-Saxon Literature • John Earle

... dollars. Twenty millions were in gold its heavy weight sustained by extra stanchions. The coin, apparently all new from the National mint, was carefully arranged around the edges of the table in a solid bulwark two feet high. ...

— The Root of Evil • Thomas Dixon

... saw that the captain's and the mate's berths were both empty, and, how he knew not, he crawled up the cabin stairs, looked on deck, and saw that his father was standing by the weather bulwark, and the captain ...

— Jack at Sea - All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy • George Manville Fenn

... beginning to assume artistic importance. The growing sense of form shown by some of Luther's own tunes (e.g. Vom Himmel hoch, da komm' ich her) soon advanced, especially in the tunes of Crueger, beyond any that was shown by folk-music; and it provided an invaluable bulwark against the chaos that was threatening to swamp music on all sides at the beginning of the 17th century. By Bach's time all the polyphonic instrumental and vocal art-forms of the 18th century were mature; and though he loved to ...

— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 - "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" • Various

... walls, blending the faces of father and mother with those of companions in the most joyous of good times, and, after the evening altar, when the lights are darkened, knows that each pillow is pressed by its own pure face, that home is a bulwark of the nation and the ante chamber to one of God's ...

— The Unfolding Life • Antoinette Abernethy Lamoreaux

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