palisade

• Around all these houses they put a triple palisade, that is three rows of stout, sharpened stakes, driven deep into the ground and rising full six feet above it. —  The Young Trailers A Story of Early Kentucky
• They rose nine or ten feet above the willow, so that the total height of the palisade was about twelve feet, and the tops of the stakes were sharpened. —  After London Or, Wild England
• It did not apply to the family of the owner Under some bushes by the palisade was a ladder of rope, the rungs, however, of wood. —  After London Or, Wild England
• In the palisade was a mighty breach, not an entrance-way, wide enough to admit six Daniel Lamberts abreast Look," cried Borabolla, as landing we stepped toward the place. —  Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2)
• On the right the high trees that stand outside the ramparts of the town went dwindling in perspective like a palisade, and above them, here and there, was a roof showing the top of the towers of the Cathedral or of St Gengoult. —  The Path to Rome

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