bulwark vs pirate

bulwark

noun
  • 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. 

  • A defensive wall or rampart. 

  • A defense or safeguard. 

  • A breakwater. 

  • Any means of defence or security. 

verb
  • To fortify something with a wall or rampart. 

  • To provide protection of defense for something. 

pirate

noun
  • An armed ship or vessel that sails for the purpose of plundering other vessels. 

  • A bird which practises kleptoparasitism. 

  • A kind of marble in children's games. 

  • A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns. 

  • One who breaks intellectual property laws by reproducing protected works without permission. 

verb
  • To knowingly obtain an unauthorized copy of. 

  • To create and/or sell an unauthorized copy of. 

  • To appropriate by piracy; to plunder at sea. 

  • To engage in piracy. 

  • To entice an employee to switch from a competing company to one's own. 

adj
  • Illegally imitated or reproduced, said of a trademarked product or copyrighted work, or of the counterfeit itself. 

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