English > bulwark: 4 senses > noun 1, artifact| Meaning | An embankment built around a space for defensive purposes. |
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| Synonyms | rampart, wall |
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| Instances | Antonine Wall | A fortification 37 miles long across the narrowest part of southern Scotland (between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde) |
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| Chinese Wall, Great Wall, Great Wall of China | A fortification 1,500 miles long built across northern China in the 3rd century BC |
| Part of | fortification, munition | defensive structure consisting of walls or mounds built around a stronghold to strengthen it |
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| Narrower | bailey | The outer defensive wall that surrounds the outer courtyard of a castle |
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| battlement, crenelation, crenellation | A rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps / gaps for firing arrows or guns |
| earthwork | An earthen rampart |
| fraise | sloping or horizontal rampart of pointed stakes |
| merlon | A solid section between two crenels in a crenelated battlement |
| Broader | embankment | A long artificial mound of stone or earth |
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| Spanish | baluarte, bastión, muralla, muro |
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| Catalan | muralla, mur |
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| Verbs | bulwark | defend with a bulwark |
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