bulwark vs stag

bulwark

noun
  • A defense or safeguard. 

  • A defensive wall or rampart. 

  • 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. 

stag

noun
  • Guard duty. 

  • An adult male deer. 

  • An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange. 

  • One who applies for the allotment of shares in new projects, with a view to sell immediately at a premium, and not to hold the stock. 

  • An unmarried man; a bachelor; a man not accompanying a woman at a social event. 

  • A stag beetle (family Lucanidae). 

  • A colt, or filly. 

  • A social event for men held in honor of a groom on the eve of his wedding, attended by male friends of the groom; sometimes a fundraiser. 

  • The Eurasian wren, Troglodytes troglodytes. 

  • An improperly or late castrated bull or ram – also called a bull seg (see note under ox). 

adv
  • Of a man, attending a formal social function without a date. 

verb
  • To act as a "stag", an irregular dealer in stocks. 

  • To watch; to dog, or keep track of. 

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