Crossword clues for bulkhead
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bulkhead \Bulk"head`\, n. [See Bulk part of a building.]
(Naut.) A partition in a vessel, to separate apartments on the same deck.
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A structure of wood or stone, to resist the pressure of earth or water; a partition wall or structure, as in a mine; the limiting wall along a water front.
Bulked line, a line beyond which a wharf must not project; -- usually, the harbor line.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context nautical English) A vertical partition dividing the hull into separate compartments; often made watertight to prevent excessive flooding if the ship's hull is breach. 2 A similar partition in an aircraft or spacecraft. 3 Mechanically, a partition or panel through which connectors pass, or a connector designed to pass through a partition. 4 A pressure-resistant sealed barrier to any fluid in a large structure. 5 A retaining wall along a waterfront.
WordNet
n. a partition that divides a ship or plane into compartments
Wikipedia
Bulkhead may refer to:
A structural safety device:
- Bulkhead (partition), a wall within the hull of a ship, vehicle, or container
- Torpedo bulkhead, a type of armor designed to keep a ship afloat even if the hull is struck by a shell or by a torpedo
- Bulkhead (barrier), a retaining wall used as a form of coastal management, akin to a seawall, or as a structural device such as a bulkhead partition
- Bulkhead door, an angled door covering the exterior stairwell of a basement
- Bulkhead flatcar, a type of rolling stock designed with sturdy end-walls to prevent loads from shifting past the ends of the car
- Rear pressure bulkhead, an airtight structural feature of an aircraft
Other uses:
- Bulkhead (Transformers), the name given to several fictional characters in the Transformers universes
- Bulkhead line, a method of coastal demarcation used within a legal system
A bulkhead is a retaining wall, such as a bulkhead within a ship or a watershed retaining wall. It may also be used in mines, to contain flooding.
Coastal bulkheads are most often referred to as seawalls, bulkheading, or riprap revetments. These manmade structures are constructed along shorelines with the purpose of controlling beach erosion. Construction materials commonly used include wood pilings, commercially developed vinyl products, large boulders stacked to form a wall, or a seawall built of concrete or another hard substance.
Coastal property owners typically seek to develop bulkheads in an attempt to slow large landslide erosion caused by wave action. Studies over recent decades have resulted in public awareness as to potential negative effects that bulkheads may bring to beaches and the interconnected habitat areas of fish, plants, and birds. Many states have enacted laws to protect beaches to allow for future use of the beaches, as well as protect these natural habitats. As of 1971, Washington State property owners are required to obtain a permit for the construction of bulkheads that adhere to the strict regulations of the Shoreline Management Act (SMA), enacted by the state legislature.
Bulkhead is the name of four fictional characters from the Transformers franchise. All incarnations of Bulkhead are Autobots and are green in color. He was introduced in Transformers: Energon and later redebuted in Transformers: Animated as a completely new character. The Animated Bulkhead became so popular that he was adapted to reappear in Transformers: Prime. Whereas he was a minor character in Energon, the Animated/Prime Bulkhead appears as a main character in both series.
Usage examples of "bulkhead".
He did not need to glance at the accelerometer mounted among the other tell-tale instruments on the bulkhead of his cabin.
The most they can manage is a sort of diagonal slouch: feet on the floor, necks bent up against the bulkhead, Acton cradling her like a living hammock.
On the starboard side of the control room, starting at the forward starboard bulkhead and wrapping around aft, was the attack center, a group of firecontrol consoles and seats for the officers manning them.
The explosive burst into a sphere of energy, blowing the aft superstructure of the destroyer into the sky, vaporizing much of the aluminum framing and bulkheads above.
Slowly Brandt climbed to the top of the sail from the aft bulkhead of the cockpit, keeping low to the top of the structure where he could see clearly yet not be picked off from the deck.
He pushed Catardi, Schultz, and Alameda into the opening and rested them against the nearly horizontal bulkheads of the command module between the panels.
Wagner, wearing the camouflage pattern coveralls and the pips of a captain of the Armee Nationale Congolaise, sat on the floor of the cabin, his back braced against the rear bulkhead.
Then the liquid reactor coolant sprayed and flooded the compartment as the number-two reactor vessel flew off its foundation and careened to the aft bulkhead, where it punctured the titanium wall.
He dashed the lantern against the far bulkhead, on the off chance that the fire would slow the darklings down, at least for a few moments.
The bulkheads were invisible beneath a dimensionless field of fierce, gray-purple light.
The new entechment platform bed stood against a bulkhead near the old, standard chair.
Monday we took the Flush out and anchored her over the wreck and worked all day in shifts, beefing up those places where Palacio thought the floatation might come busting out, and also cutting through some interior bulkheads to make a free flow of water through all the belowdecks areas, and fastening some plywood against the inside of the hull where the big hole was.
Entering my room, lighted strongly by a big bulkhead lamp swung on gimbals above my writing desk, I did not see him anywhere till he stepped out quietly from behind the coats hung in the recessed part.
Machinery, ribbed tubes, and plastic cables formed an untidy glyptic over most bulkheads.
Her decks were snowy white, and they had replaced all the woodwork in the saloon bulkhead, a beautiful piece of joinery with which even I could find no fault.