palisade

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˌpælɪˈseɪd/

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• Rhymes: -eɪd

Simple palisade fort.

palisade (plural palisades)

1. A long, strong stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other sharpened.
2. (military) A wall of wooden stakes, used as a defensive barrier.
   • 1976, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift, New York: Avon, →ISBN, page 261:

     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.

3. A line of cliffs, especially one showing basaltic columns.
4. (biology) An even row of cells. e.g.: palisade mesophyll cells.

• palisade worm
• palisadic

palisade (third-person singular simple present palisades, present participle palisading, simple past and past participle palisaded)

1. (transitive, usually in the passive) To equip with a palisade.
   • 1871, James Fenimore Cooper, Wyandotte‎:

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

   • 1890, John Fiske, Civil Government in the United States Considered with‎:

     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.

   • 1909, John R. Musick, The Real America in Romance, Volume 6; A Century Too Soon (A Story‎:

     They stood at bay in an old palisaded fort.

   • 1957, Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker, Bacon's Rebellion, 1676‎:

     The ensuing dispute led to a bloody battle on the island, in which the English rushed up to the palisaded fort, began firing in at the portholes, and set fire to the village.

Borrowed from French palissade.

palisade c (singular definite palisaden, plural indefinite palisader)

1. palisade (stick)
2. palisade (wall of sticks)

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