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palisade

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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)

to furnish or fortify with a palisade.

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Origin:
1590–1600; < French palissade < Old Provençal palissada, equivalent to paliss(a) paling (derivative of pal stake, pale²) + -ada -ade¹

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un·pal·i·sad·ed, adjective

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In recent excavations, they uncovered stains of decayed wood where they said logs of the palisade wall had stood in the.

The excavation of the palisade also revealed the body of a second infant and the skeleton of a sheep or goat.

As the canyon widens, the river runs a gantlet of great palisade walls rimmed with slickrock peaks and hanging valleys.

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palisade (ˌpælɪˈseɪd)

—n
1.	a strong fence made of stakes driven into the ground, esp for defence
2.	one of the stakes used in such a fence
3.	botany a layer of elongated mesophyll cells containing many chloroplasts, situated below the outer epidermis of a leaf blade

—vb
4.	(tr) to enclose with a palisade

[C17: via French, from Old Provençal palissada, ultimately from Latin pālus stake; see pale², pole¹]

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palisade

"a fence of stakes," 1600, from Fr. palissade, from Prov. palissada, from palissa "a stake or paling," from Gallo-Romance *palicea, from L. palus "stake" (see pale (n.)). Military sense is attested from 1697. The Palisades, along the Hudson River opposite New York City, so called by 1838.

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