Palisade

They lived near the ocean, at the top of a steep palisade.

Rumors spread that the forger had bribed the guards at the palisade with expertly faked coins, buying himself safe passage.

The settlers built a rough wooden palisade around the camp for protection.

A weathered palisade still marks the boundary of the old fort.

The dragon's fire washed over the enchanted palisade and broke apart in a shower of harmless sparks.

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.

I realize how universal the desire to injure your fellow man is. … Only hear the government of laws and lawyers puts a palisade up. They can injure you a lot, make your life hideous, but they can't actually do you in.

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.