Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who barricades.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who constructs barricades.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who mans a
barricade
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Examples
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As he was slowly and wearily wending his way homeward, he suddenly encountered M. Dantès and his friend Lamartine in the Rue Richelieu; his gun was on his shoulder, and in his tattered attire, with the dust and powder on his face and hands, he had the exact appearance of an insurrectionist and a barricader.
Edmond Dantès Edmund Flagg
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I wanted to end as I had begun, to die as my father had died, like an insurrectionist in an insurrection, a barricader in a barricade.
The Insurgent Ludovic Hal 1907
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Are we then to repudiate Fabian methods, and return to those of the barricader, or adopt those of the dynamitard and the assassin?
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Are we then to repudiate Fabian methods, and return to those of the barricader, or adopt those of the dynamitard and the assassin?
Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion George Bernard Shaw 1903
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I wanted to end as I had begun, die as my father had died, as a rioter in a riot, as a barricader behind a barricade.
Parisian Points of View Ludovic Halevy 1871
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