Look up: palisade

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   Palisade
   A sturdy wooden fence usually built to enclose a site until a permanent stone wall can be constructed.
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   Palisade
   Palisade is a town in Mesa County Colorado, USA Palisade is a township in Minnehaha County South Dakota, USA Palisade is a village partly in Hayes County and partly in Hitchcock County Nebraska, USA Palisade is a city in Aitkin County Minnesota, USA
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   palisade
   . a strong, high fence or wall made of logs or stakes and intended for defensive purposes.
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   palisade
   [n] - fortification consisting of a strong fence made of stakes driven into the ground
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   Palisade
   timber defensive screen or fence
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   Palisade
   fence of pointed stakes firmly fixed in the ground.
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   Palisade
   A palisade is a wall or a high fence of stakes, which are placed on the ground. A palisade is used for the means of a defensive structure.
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   Palisade
   Palisades are large wooden defensive fences. The posts usually have dug foundations, and the ends may be sharpened. They were often built to keep out wild animals, as well as human attackers. They were sometimes placed around Iron Age settlements and continued to be used until the medieval period, after which defences were no longer needed. All tha...
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   Palisade
   Pal`i·sade' noun [ French palissade , confer Spanish palizada , Italian palizzata , palizzo , Late Latin palissata ; all from Latin 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 ...
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    Palisade
    Pal`i·sade' transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Palisaded ; present participle & verbal noun Palisading .] [ Confer French palissader .] To surround, inclose, or fortify, with palisades.
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    Palisade
    Pal`i·sade' noun A line of bold cliffs, esp. one showing basaltic columns; -- usually in plural , and orig. used as the name of the cliffs on the west bank of the lower Hudson.
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    palisade
    1. 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. ... <botany> Palisade cells, a nematoid worm (Strongylus armatus), parasitic in the blood vessels of the horse, in which i ...
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    palisade
    noun fortification consisting of a strong fence made of stakes driven into the ground
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    Palisade
    A `palisade` is a steel or wooden fence or wall of variable height, used as a defensive structure. Typical construction consisted of small or midsized trunks of trees aligned vertically, with no spacing in between. The trunks would be sharpened or pointed at the top end, and be driven into the ground on the other end. They would sometimes be reinforced with additional construction. The height of a palisade can range from a few feet or more to n...
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    Palisade
    • (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. t.) To surround, inclose, or fortify, with palisades. • (n.) Any fence made of pales or sharp stakes. • (n.) A strong, long stake, one end of which is set firmly...
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    palisade
    In pathology, a row of elongated nuclei parallel to each other. [Fr. palissade, fr. L. palus, a pale, stake]
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    palisade
    wooden fence used for a fortification
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