Palisade

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A fence of pales forming a defense barrier or fortification.
  • n. One of the pales of such a fence.
  • n. A line of lofty steep cliffs, usually along a river.
  • v. To equip or fortify with palisades or a palisade.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A wall of wooden stakes, used as a defensive barrier
  • n. A line of cliffs
  • n. An even row of cells. e.g.: palisade mesophyll cells.
  • v. To equip with a palisade.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
  • n. Any fence made of pales or sharp stakes.
  • 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.
  • v. To surround, inclose, or fortify, with palisades.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A fence made of strong pales or stakes set firmly in the ground, forming an inclosure, or used as a defense.
  • n. A stake, of which two or more were in former times carried by dragoons, intended to be planted in the ground for defense.
  • n. A wire sustaining the hair: a feature of the head-dress of the close of the seventeenth century.
  • n. plural
  • 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.
  • To surround, inclose, or fortify with a palisade or palisades.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. fortification consisting of a strong fence made of stakes driven into the ground
  • v. surround with a wall in order to fortify
  • Verb Form
    palisaded    palisades    palisading   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Form
    palisaded    palisading   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    fence    stake    cliff   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Blade    Cade    Crusade    Dade    Jade    Kincaid    Slade    Wade    ade    afraid   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    stockade    rampart    barricade    bastion    fortification    citadel    buttress    moat    parapet    breastwork