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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A fence of pales forming a defense barrier or fortification.
  2. n. One of the pales of such a fence.
  3. n. A line of lofty steep cliffs, usually along a river.
  4. v. To equip or fortify with palisades or a palisade.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A fence made of strong pales or stakes set firmly in the ground, forming an inclosure, or used as a defense. In fortification it is often placed vertically at the foot of the counterscarp, or presented at an angle at the foot of a parapet.
  2. n. A stake, of which two or more were in former times carried by dragoons, intended to be planted in the ground for defense. They were 4½ feet long, with forked iron heads. In the seventeenth century an attempt was made to combine a rest for the musket with the palisade. Also called swine-feather and Swedish feather.
  3. n. A wire sustaining the hair: a feature of the head-dress of the close of the seventeenth century.
  4. n. plural
  5. n. A precipice of trap-rock on the western bank of the Hudson river, extending from Fort Lee northward about fifteen miles. Its height is from 200 to 500 feet. The name is also used in various other localities for formations of a similar character.
  6. To surround, inclose, or fortify with a palisade or palisades.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A wall of wooden stakes, used as a defensive barrier
  2. n. A line of cliffs
  3. n. biology An even row of cells. e.g.: palisade mesophyll cells.
  4. v. transitive To equip with a palisade.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Fort.) A strong, long stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other is sharpened; also, a fence formed of such stakes set in the ground as a means of defense.
  2. n. Any fence made of pales or sharp stakes.
  3. n. A line of bold cliffs, esp. one showing basaltic columns; -- usually in pl., and orig. used as the name of the cliffs on the west bank of the lower Hudson.
  4. v. To surround, inclose, or fortify, with palisades.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. fortification consisting of a strong fence made of stakes driven into the ground
  2. v. surround with a wall in order to fortify

Etymologies

  1. From French palissade, from Old French, from Old Provençal palissada, from palissa ("stake"), from Gallo-Romance *pālīcea, from Latin pālus ("stake"). (Wiktionary)
  2. French palissade, from Old French, from Old Provençal palissada, from palissa, stake, from Vulgar Latin *pālīcea, from Latin pālus. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “The palisade is an open structure which would not have been defensive and was too high to be practical for controlling livestock.”

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  • “If there were guards posted in the watchtower, he could not see them from the covered porch because although the palisade was a simple pole structure, the gate itself had a doubled entry-way: You had to enter through the outer gate into a small, confined area, where you waited for the inner gate to be opened to admit you to the town.”

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  • “Without the palisade was a space of waste land, marsh and thicket, tapering to the narrow strip of sand and scrub joining the peninsula to the forest, and here and there upon this waste ground rose a mean house, dwelt in by the poorer sort.”

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  • “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.”

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  • “Under some bushes by the palisade was a ladder of rope, the rungs, however, of wood.”

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  • “In the palisade was a mighty breach, not an entrance-way, wide enough to admit six Daniel Lamberts abreast.”

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  • “To the delight of many, Gary correctly spelled "palisade" as the rest of the competitors, in a tense tie-breaker, fell by the wayside stumbling over words such as "usurper", "purloin" and”

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  • “The king ordered the Agrianians and the archers from Crete inside the palisade, but kept his infantry in reserve.”

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  • “At the platform atop the palisade, we found Darting Snake.”

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  • “He considered the warriors guarding the palisade gate, his broad face thoughtful.”

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