bulwark

bulwark definitions

verb
  • To fortify something with a wall or rampart. 

  • To provide protection of defense for something. 

noun
  • A defensive wall or rampart. 

  • A defense or safeguard. 

  • A breakwater. 

  • Any means of defence or security. 

  • 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.