Bulwark

Bulwark can refer to:

An architectural term
Any of seven Royal Navy ships, see HMS Bulwark
Part of the town of Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales

This page is a glossary of architecture. A Aisle - subsidiary space alongside the body of a building separated from it by columns piers or The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British armed services (and is therefore known as the Senior Service) Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Bulwark, after the reference to the Navy as the 'bulwark' (defence of the country HMS Chepstow (Cas-gwent is a town in Monmouthshire, Wales, adjoining the border with Gloucestershire, England. Ancient county See also Monmouthshire (historic The ancient county of Monmouthshire was formed from the Welsh Marches by the Laws in Wales

Dictionary

-noun

a defensive wall or rampart
a defense or safeguard
a breakwater
(nautical) 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

(transitive) to fortify something with a wall or rampart
(transitive) to provide protection of defense for something

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