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Barricade
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- 1 A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defence
- 2 a barrier (usually thrown up hastily) to impede the advance of an enemy wordnet
- 3 An obstacle, barrier, or bulwark.
"Such a barricade as would greatly annoy, or absolutely stop, the currents of the atmosphere."
- 4 a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc. wordnet
- 5 A place of confrontation. figuratively, in-plural
"I have a friend who finds the whole idea of a gay marching band distasteful on the grounds that it replicates straight culture. I'm not ready to follow her to the barricades on that because I think that to some extent the sight of women banging bass drums and men prancing around in pink spandex has to undermine a patriarchal and heterosexist assumption or two."
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- 6 Line of people standing behind or closest to the barricade in the pit section of a live music concert. figuratively
- 1 To close or block a road etc., as, or using, a barricade.
"I stood beside the sources of the Arveiron, which take their rise in a glacier, that with slow pace is advancing down from the summit of the hills, to barricade the valley."
- 2 block off with barricades wordnet
- 3 To keep someone in (or out), using a blockade, especially ships in a port.
- 4 prevent access to by barricading wordnet
- 5 render unsuitable for passage wordnet
Etymology
The noun is borrowed from French barricade, or an assimilation of the earlier barricado to the French form. The verb is from the noun or French barricader.
The noun is borrowed from French barricade, or an assimilation of the earlier barricado to the French form. The verb is from the noun or French barricader.
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