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noun
1.
a defensive barrier hastily constructed, as in a street, to stop an enemy.
2.
any barrier that obstructs passage.
verb (used with object)
3.
to obstruct or block with a barricade: barricading the streets to prevent an attack.
4.
to shut in and defend with or as if with a barricade: The rebels had barricaded themselves in the old city.
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barricade
1590s, from M.Fr. barricader "to barricade" (1550s), from barrique "barrel," from Sp. barrica "barrel," from baril (see barrel). Extended to "improvised rampart" in 1588 Huguenot riots in Paris, when large barrels filled with earth and stones were set up in the streets. The
EXPANDnoun is attested from 1640s, earlier barricado (1580s).
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