| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Bulwark.[Websters]
2. To have shielded, bucklered, screened or blazoned. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To be jettied. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To have banked. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To be diked, dyked, causewayed or moated. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To have guarded or safeguarded. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To be walled, sided or ribbed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To be mounded. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To have towered or fortressed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To have supported, defended, vindicated or stayed.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb bulwark.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (bulwark) | 1. Defend with a bulwark.[Wordnet]. 2. To fortify with, or as with, a rampart or wall; to secure by fortification; to protect.[Websters]. 3. Base verb from the following inflections: bulwarking, bulwarked, bulwarks, bulwarker, bulwarkers, bulwarkingly and bulwarkedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "BULWARKED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1801. (references) |
Specialty Definition: bulwark
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Transportation | The corner of a fortification, often containing artillery. (references) | ||
| Wikipedic | A bulwark is a barricade of beams and soil used in 15th and 16th century fortifications designed to mount artillery. On board ships the term is used of the woodwork running round the ship above the level of the deck. Figuratively it means anything serving as a defense. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: bulwark
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| HMS Bulwark | Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Bulwark. (references) | ||
| HMS Bulwark (L15) | HMS Bulwark is an Albion-class landing platform dock, the UK's newest class of amphibious assault warship. For numerous reasons, delays caused the delivery date to be put back, with the ship entering service in December 2004. Coupled with Albion and HMS Ocean, as well as other amphibious ships, she should provide a much improved and potent amphibious capability for the Royal Navy. (references) | ||
| HMS Bulwark (R08) | The sixth HMS Bulwark (R08) of the Royal Navy was a 22,000 tonne Centaur-class light fleet aircraft carrier, launched in 1948. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: bulwark
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Lud's bulwark | Literature | Ludgate prison. (See above.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Lud's bulwark | Slang in 1811 | LUD'S BULWARK. Ludgate prison. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
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Topics by Level of Interest: bulwark | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| HMS Bulwark | 53 | Bulwark | 28 | |
| Bulwark | 28 | Bulwark (comics) | 7 | |
| USS Bulwark | 25 | Bulwark class battleship (1859) | 18 | |
| HMS Bulwark (L15) | 18 | HMS Bulwark | 53 | |
| Bulwark class battleship (1859) | 18 | HMS Bulwark (1807) | 5 | |
| HMS Bulwark (1899) | 13 | HMS Bulwark (1899) | 13 | |
| HMS Bulwark (R08) | 13 | HMS Bulwark (L15) | 18 | |
| USS Bulwark (AMc-68) | 11 | HMS Bulwark (R08) | 13 | |
| USS Bulwark (AM-425) | 10 | USS Bulwark | 25 | |
| Bulwark (comics) | 7 | USS Bulwark (AM-425) | 10 | |
| HMS Bulwark (1807) | 5 | USS Bulwark (AMc-68) | 11 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
