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Bulwarks

A defensive wall or rampart.

📖 Definitions of "Bulwarks"

noun
  1. 1

    A defensive wall or rampart.

  2. 2

    A defense or safeguard.

  3. 3

    A breakwater.

  4. 4

    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
  1. 1

    To fortify something with a wall or rampart.

  2. 2

    To provide protection of defense for something.

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