palisade
noun
- defensive structure; typically a fence or wall made from wooden stakes
- line of cliffs, especially one showing basaltic columns
verb
- to fortify with palisades
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˌpælɪˈseɪd/ / /ˈpæl.ɪˌseɪ̯d/ / [ˈpʰæl.ɪˌseɪ̯d] / /ˈpæl.əˌseɪ̯d/
name
Etymology: See palisade.
- A town in Mesa County, Colorado, United States.
noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French palissade, from Old French, from Old Occitan palissada, from palissa (“stake”), probably from pal (“stake”), or possibly from Gallo-Romance *pālīcea, from Latin pālus (“stake”) + -ade.
- A long, strong stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other sharpened.
- A wall of wooden stakes, used as a defensive barrier.
“We had soon touched land in the same place as before and set to provision the blockhouse. All three made the first journey, heavily laden, and tossed our stores over the palisade.”
“Before the clearing had been half crossed the Arabs opened up a withering fire from behind the palisade.”
- A line of cliffs, especially one showing basaltic columns.
- An even row of cells, e.g., palisade mesophyll cells.
verb
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French palissade, from Old French, from Old Occitan palissada, from palissa (“stake”), probably from pal (“stake”), or possibly from Gallo-Romance *pālīcea, from Latin pālus (“stake”) + -ade.
- To equip with a palisade.
“The Hut, well palisaded, would make a work that could not be easily carried, without artillery."”
“But where, through the development of trade or any other cause, a good many of them grew up close together within a narrow compass, they gradually coalesced into a kind of compound town; and with the greater population and greater wealth, there was naturally more elaborate and permanent fortification than that of the palisaded village.”