bulwark vs palisade

bulwark

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. 

verb
  • To fortify something with a wall or rampart. 

  • To provide protection of defense for something. 

palisade

noun
  • A wall of wooden stakes, used as a defensive barrier. 

  • An even row of cells. e.g.: palisade mesophyll cells. 

  • A line of cliffs, especially one showing basaltic columns. 

  • A long, strong stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other sharpened. 

verb
  • To equip with a palisade. 

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