bulwark
bool werk
- n an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes
- n a fencelike structure around a deck (usually plural)
- n a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away
- v defend with a bulwark
- Huang, currently a visiting fellow at the University of Singapore's East Asia Institute, says there is a huge bulwark of entrenched officials (in the United Front Work Department .
- Three years later, hundreds of Navy seabees arrived by ship and began pouring out the 12,000-foot runway that would become a bulwark of American Cold War strategy in the region .
- Says Energy Minister Ali Rodrguez, "Hugo Chvez has been the most effective bulwark against the country's social explosion.