palisade
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14 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Typical construction
- Ancient Greece and Rome
- Precolumbian North America
- Colonial America
- Ottoman Empire
- Carolingian Empire
- New Zealand
- Half-timber palisade construction
- Modern uses
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
thumb|right|Reconstruction of a palisade in a Celtic village at St Fagans National History Museum, [[Wales]] thumb|right|Reconstruction of a medieval palisade in Germany
A palisade, sometimes called a stakewall or a paling, is typically a row of closely placed, high vertical standing tree trunks or wooden or iron stakes used as a fence for enclosure or as a defensive wall. Palisades can form a stockade.