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Palisade

//ˌpæ.lɪˈseɪd// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A town in Mesa County, Colorado, United States.
Noun
  1. 1
    A long, strong stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other sharpened.
  2. 2
    fortification consisting of a strong fence made of stakes driven into the ground wordnet
  3. 3
    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."

  4. 4
    A line of cliffs, especially one showing basaltic columns.
  5. 5
    An even row of cells, e.g., palisade mesophyll cells.
Verb
  1. 1
    To equip with a palisade. also, intransitive, passive, transitive, usually

    "The Hut, well palisaded, would make a work that could not be easily carried, without artillery.""

  2. 2
    surround with a wall in order to fortify wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

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.

Etymology 3

See palisade.

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