bulwark
Noun
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An embankment built around a space for defensive purposes (synset 104058937)
"they stormed the ramparts of the city"; "they blew the trumpet and the walls came tumbling down"is a type of: embankment - a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protectionsubtypes:
- bailey - the outer defensive wall that surrounds the outer courtyard of a castle
- battlement, crenelation, crenellation - a rampart built around the top of a castle with regular 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
specific 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); built in 140 to mark the frontier of the Roman province of Britain
- chinese wall, great wall, great wall of china - a fortification 1,500 miles long built across northern China in the 3rd century BC; it averages 6 meters in width
is a part of: fortification, munition - defensive structure consisting of walls or mounds built around a stronghold to strengthen it -
A fencelike structure around a deck (usually plural) (synset 102921714)
is a type of: barrier - a structure or object that impedes free movementis a part of: ship - a vessel that carries passengers or freight
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A protective structure of stone or concrete;
Extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away (synset 102897867)is a type of: barrier - a structure or object that impedes free movement
Verb
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Defend with a bulwark (synset 201130497)
is a type of: defend - be on the defensive; act against an attack
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