Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: bulwark
IPA transcription: [b'ʊlwɚk]
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: bulwark
    Meaning: defend with a bulwark
Usage examples
  • He fired from a window, and some tufts of wool spurted from the marshal's trustworthy bulwark.
  • We saw the tall stout figure still leaning on the bulwark, and still nodding his head to and fro, but his face was now turned from us so that we could not behold it.
  • His prudence could not safely intrust the bulwark of Italy to such feeble and turbulent neighbors; and his justice might claim the lands which they oppressed, either as a part of his kingdom, or as the inheritance of his father.
  • "And as to your Socialism," she went on, unheeding, the thought of many days finding defiant expression--"it seems to me like all other interesting and important things--destined to help something else! Christianity begins with the poor and division of goods--it becomes the great bulwark of property and the feudal state.