bulwark

Everyday

1. A wall or strong defence against attack. tree →
2. The raised side of a ship above the deck. tree →

In the lessons

a strong defence, such as a city's walls or a great hope, in a tale

Examples

• After Hector's death, the Trojans lost their great bulwark. tree →
• The waves crashed against the castle bulwarks. tree →
• The rocky cliff was a bulwark against the sea. tree →

Note

nothing for maths

In Jewish tradition

Here it means siege-works raised against an enemy city.

Interpretation. Tradition takes this law as a rule against wasting. Fruit trees must not be cut down even in war, and the rabbis took this as the basis of the prohibition on needless destruction (bal tashchit).

Examples

• Only the trees of which thou knowest that they are not trees for food, them thou mayest destroy and cut down, that thou mayest build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it fall. (Torah DEU.20.20, JPS 1917) tree →
• In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; walls and bulwarks doth He appoint for salvation. (Prophets ISA.26.1, JPS 1917) tree →
• there was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it; (Writings ECC.9.14, JPS 1917) tree →
• And the multitude of all the nations that war against Ariel, even all that war against her, and the bulwarks about her, and they that distress her, shall be as a dream, a vision of the night. (Prophets ISA.29.7, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

nothing for maths