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BULWARK (a word probably of Scandinavian origin, from bol or bole, a tree-trunk, and werk, work, in Ger. Bollwerk, which has also been derived from an old German bolen, to throw, and so a machine for throwing missiles)

BULWARK (a word probably of Scandinavian origin, from bol or See also:
BOLE
bole, a See also:
TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )
tree-See also:
TRUNK (Fr. tronc, Lat. truncus, cut off, maimed)
trunk, and werk, See also:
WORK
work, in Ger. Bollwerk, which has also been derived from an old See also:
GERMAN
GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN
German bolen, to throw, and so a See also:
MACHINE
MACHINE (through Fr. from Lat. form machina of Gr. µnxavil)
machine for throwing missiles) , a See also:

BARRICADE, or BARRICADO (from the Span. barricada, from barrica, a cask, casks filled with earth having been early used to form barricades)

barricade of beams, See also:

earth, &c., a See also:

WORK

work in 15th and 16th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century fortifications designed to See also:

MOUNT, WILLIAM SIDNEY (1807-1868)

mount See also:

ARTILLERY (the O. Fr. artiller, to equip with engines of war, probably comes from Late Lat. articulum, dim. of ars, art, cf. " engine " from ingenium, or of artus, joint)

artillery (see See also:

BOULEVARD (a Fr. word, earlier boulevart, from Dutch or Ger. Bollwerk, cf. Eng. " bulwark ")

BOULEVARD) . On See also:

BOARD (O. Eng. bord)

board See also:

SHIP

ship the See also:

TERM

term is used of the woodwork See also:

RUNNING

running See also:

ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round the ship above the level of the See also:

DECK

deck . Figuratively it means anything serving as a See also:

defence .

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