Bulkhead meaning

bŭlk'hĕd'
The definition of a bulkhead is a wall, embankment or partition used to protect against slippage, fire or flood.

An example of bulkhead is a rock retaining wall.

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A wall or an embankment, as in a mine or along a waterfront, that acts as a protective barrier.
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A horizontal or sloping structure providing access to a cellar stairway.
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Any of the upright partitions separating parts of a ship, airplane, etc. as for protection against fire or leakage.
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A wall or embankment for holding back earth, fire, water, etc.
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A boxlike structure built over an opening, as at the head of a staircase, elevator shaft, etc.
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A similar partition in an aircraft or spacecraft.
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Mechanically, a partition or panel through which connectors pass, or a connector designed to pass through a partition.
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A pressure-resistant sealed barrier to any fluid in a large structure.
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A retaining wall along a waterfront.
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Origin of bulkhead

  • bulk stall, partition (perhaps of Scandinavian origin) head
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • bulk +‎ head
    From Wiktionary

Bulkhead Sentence Examples

  • Most basements have awkward wall space under the staircase or near the bulkhead exit.

  • Here is a hogshead of molasses or of brandy directed to John Smith, Cuttingsville, Vermont, some trader among the Green Mountains, who imports for the farmers near his clearing, and now perchance stands over his bulkhead and thinks of the last arrivals on the coast, how they may affect the price for him, telling his customers this moment, as he has told them twenty times before this morning, that he expects some by the next train of prime quality.

  • bulkhead door slid open.

  • plenum area of the bulkhead clear.

  • Bedroom 3 8&'11& ' ' x 8&'8& ' ' overall including bulkhead, with window to the front.

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