📚 Bulwark, noun. 🔉 /ˈbʊlwək/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A defensive wall. ❗️ Examples: 1. After landing virtually unopposed, the Fifth Corps moved toward the San Juan Heights, the principal bulwark in the first of three defensive lines around the city. 2. Trenches and low walls of earth braced with wooden beams zig-zagged their way across the fields to where troops laboured at raising bulwarks against rifle fire. 3. Even in wartime, the army was forbidden to cut down fruit trees, unless they were actually being used as bulwarks in defending against a siege. 4. The security forces are a bulwark against the breakdown of society. 5. And a bold, well-communicated agenda provides a bulwark against politicians offering division rather than solutions. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic