Noun: bulkhead
| Singular | bulkhead |
| Plural | bulkheads |
Sample Sentences
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Lastly, Lundberg went belowdecks to inspect the boat's bulkheads and hull—for what, it was not clear, since he had absolutely no knowledge of steamboat design. [2003, Edward T. O'Donnell, Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum, page 54:]
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For rigidity, two bulkheads are provided which are welded to the sides and underframe and which separate the cabs from the engine room. [1958 September 26, “Swindon's First Main-Line Diesel Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, page 601:]
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Folding blinds are fitted to the cab bulkhead windows and sunblinds at the driving windows. [1959 January 26, “Single-Unit Diesel Railcars for the Western Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 58:]
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She bumped her noggin on the bulkhead above the doorway, smiled in apology for her presumed clumsiness. [2003, John Farris, The Fury and the Power:]
Nouns inflected like bulkhead
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Norse bálkr (“partition”) + head, anglicised as bulk + head. See: Old Norse Nouns '
bálkr'.