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- adjective Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century form of
barricadoed
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Examples
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Nor had anything in the earlier play prepared us for the spectacle of him as a poltroon, who has "barricado'd" himself in his house to avoid a challenge, and who shrieks "murther!" at the entrance of an unexpected visitor.
Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman
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Say, what my path to meet them, being barred * By wars, and barricado'd succour's gate? '
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Thus finding our selves Masters of so fair an opportunity, (because we knew the Indians were engaged,) we resolved to make use of it, and to examine their Quioccasan, the inside of which, they never suffer any English Man to see; and having removed about fourteen Loggs from the Door, with which it was barricado'd, we went in, and at first found nothing but naked Walls, and a Fire place in the middle.
The History and Present State of Virginia, in Four Parts 1722
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However, as well as I could, I barricado'd my self round with the Chests and Boards that I had brought on Shore, and made a Kind of a Hut for that Night's Lodging; as for Food, I yet saw not which Way to supply my self, except that I had seen two or three Creatures like Hares run out of the Wood where I shot the Fowl.
The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner 1719
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And barricado'd it with haunches Of outward men, and bulks and paunches.
Hudibras. A poem in three cantos Treadway Russell 1793
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