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palisade
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See also: Palisade
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French palissade, from Old French, from Old Occitan palissada, from palissa (“stake”), probably from pal (“stake”), or possibly from Gallo-Romance *pālīcea, from Latin pālus (“stake”) + -ade.
Pronunciation
Noun
palisade (plural palisades)
- A long, strong stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other sharpened.
- (military) A wall of wooden stakes, used as a defensive barrier.
- 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
- We had soon touched land in the same place as before and set to provision the blockhouse. All three made the first journey, heavily laden, and tossed our stores over the palisade.
- 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 135:
- Before the clearing had been half crossed the Arabs opened up a withering fire from behind the palisade.
- 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 261:
- I realize how universal the desire to injure your fellow man is. … Only hear the government of laws and lawyers puts a palisade up. They can injure you a lot, make your life hideous, but they can't actually do you in.
- A line of cliffs, especially one showing basaltic columns.
- (biology) An even row of cells, e.g., palisade mesophyll cells.
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Translations
long, strong stake with sharpened head
wall of wooden stakes
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a line of cliffs
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Verb
palisade (third-person singular simple present palisades, present participle palisading, simple past and past participle palisaded)
- (transitive, usually in the passive, also intransitive) To equip with a palisade.
- 1890, John Fiske, Civil Government in the United States Considered with:
- But where, through the development of trade or any other cause, a good many of them grew up close together within a narrow compass, they gradually coalesced into a kind of compound town; and with the greater population and greater wealth, there was naturally more elaborate and permanent fortification than that of the palisaded village.
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Danish
Etymology
Noun
palisade c (singular definite palisaden, plural indefinite palisader)
- palisade (stick)
- palisade (wall of sticks)
Declension
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Indonesian
Etymology
Internationalism, borrowed from Dutch palissade, from French palissade.
Pronunciation
Noun
palisadê (plural palisade-palisade)
Alternative forms
- palisad (Standard Malay)
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