bulwark vs ship

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. 

ship

noun
  • A water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat. 

  • A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense. 

  • A spaceship (the type of pattern in a cellular automaton). 

  • A vessel which travels through any medium other than across land, such as an airship or spaceship. 

  • A fictional romantic relationship between two characters, either real or themselves fictional, especially one explored in fan fiction. 

  • The third card of the Lenormand deck. 

verb
  • To trade or send a player to another team. 

  • To engage to serve on board a vessel. 

  • To take in (water) over the sides of a vessel. 

  • To pass (from one person to another). 

  • To go all in. 

  • Leave, depart, scram. 

  • To send by water-borne transport. 

  • To bungle a kick and give the opposing team possession. 

  • To send (a parcel or container) to a recipient (by any means of transport). 

  • To embark on a ship. 

  • To put or secure in its place. 

  • To support or approve of a fictional romantic relationship between two characters, typically in fan fiction or other fandom contexts. 

  • To release a product (not necessarily physical) to vendors or customers; to launch. 

How often have the words bulwark and ship occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )