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noun 
  1. a defensive wall or rampart
  2. a defense or safeguard
  3. a breakwater
  4. (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 
  1. (transitive) to fortify something with a wall or rampart
  2. (transitive) to provide protection of defense for something
Etymology: bolwerk. Cognates include boulevard and baluarte.


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