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palisade
[ pal-uh-seyd ]
noun
- a fence of pales or stakes set firmly in the ground, as for enclosure or defense.
- any of a number of pales or stakes pointed at the top and set firmly in the ground in a close row with others to form a defense.
- Botany. palisade parenchyma.
- palisades, a line of cliffs.
verb (used with object)
, pal·i·sad·ed, pal·i·sad·ing.
- to furnish or fortify with a palisade.
palisade
/ ˌpælɪˈseɪd /
noun
- a strong fence made of stakes driven into the ground, esp for defence
- one of the stakes used in such a fence
- botany a layer of elongated mesophyll cells containing many chloroplasts, situated below the outer epidermis of a leaf blade
verb
- tr to enclose with a palisade
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- unpal·i·saded adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of palisade1
C17: via French, from Old Provençal palissada, ultimately from Latin pālus stake; see pale ², pole 1
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Example Sentences
Grendel means, originally, no more than a bar or rod, or a palisade or lattice-work made of such bars or rods.
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Many of these round houses were built close together, and then surrounded by a palisade made of tree trunks.
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The next type is found in the monastery of St. Bride, which was simply a circular palisade encircling a sacred fire.
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It seems that the citadel of Athens had been formerly surrounded by a wooden palisade.
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But what she saw in the cheerful June sky beyond the palisade made her body go clammy-cold with horror.
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