bulwarks
noun
Meaning
- A defensive wall or rampart.
- A defense or safeguard.
- A breakwater.
- 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.
- Any means of defence or security.
- To fortify something with a wall or rampart.
- To provide protection of defense for something.
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