About The Word Palisade
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Palisade Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Palisade?
[n] fortification consisting of a strong fence made of stakes driven into the ground
[v] surround with a wall in order to fortify Synonyms | Synonyms for Palisade: fence | fence in | surround | wall Related Terms | Find terms related to Palisade: abatis | advanced work | arm | armor | armor-plate | balistraria | bank | banquette | bar | barbed-wire entanglement | barbican | barricade | barrier | bartizan | bastion | battle | battlement | blockade | bluff | breastwork | bulkhead in | bulwark | casemate | castellate | cheval-de-frise | circumvallation | cliff | contravallation | counterscarp | crag | crenellate | curtain | demibastion | dig in | dike | drawbridge | earthwork | embattle | enclosure | entanglement | entrench | escarp | escarpment | face | fence | fieldwork | fortalice | fortification | fortify | garrison | glacis | hedge | hem | leg | loophole | lunette | machicolation | man | man the garrison | mantelet | merlon | mine | mound | outwork | pale | palisades | parados | parapet | peg | picket | pile | portcullis | postern gate | precipice | rail | rampart | ravelin | redan | redoubt | sally port | scar | scarp | sconce | shank | spile | stake | steep | stockade | tenaille | vallation | vallum | wall | work See Also | circumvallate | fortification | munition | protect | stockade | wall in | wall up Palisade In Webster's Dictionary \Pal`i*sade"\, 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.
\Pal`i*sade"\, n. [F. palissade, cf. Sp. palizada, It. palizzata, palizzo, LL. palissata; all fr. L. palus a stake, pale. See {Pale} a stake.] 1. (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. Any fence made of pales or sharp stakes. {Palisade cells} (Bot.), vertically elongated parenchyma cells, such as are seen beneath the epidermis of the upper surface of many leaves. {Palisade worm} (Zo["o]l.), a nematoid worm ({Strongylus armatus}), parasitic in the blood vessels of the horse, in which it produces aneurisms, often fatal. \Pal`i*sade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Palisaded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Palisading}.] [Cf. F. palissader.] To surround, inclose, or fortify, with palisades. |
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