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noun

Palisade n.

(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.

Any fence made of pales or sharp stakes.

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.

Palisade cells (Bot.), vertically elongated parenchyma cells, such as are seen beneath the epidermis of the upper surface of many leaves.

Palisade worm (Zool.), a nematoid worm (Strongylus armatus), parasitic in the blood vessels of the horse, in which it produces aneurisms, often fatal.

verb

Palisade v. t. (past & past part. palisaded; pres. part. palisading) To surround, inclose, or fortify, with palisades.

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Etymology of 'Palisade'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Palisade" Quotes from Famous Books

... kind of stockade. Now this manner of living is identically the same as that of all savage tribes which have not passed beyond the drum state of civilization, namely, a few huts huddled together and surrounded by a palisade of bamboo or cane. Since the pith would decompose in a short time, we should probably find that the wind, whirling across such a palisade of pipes—for that is what our bamboos would have turned to—would produce musical sounds, ...

— Critical & Historical Essays - Lectures delivered at Columbia University • Edward MacDowell

... seen constructed by human Pellucidarians. There was a rude rectangle walled with logs and boulders, in which were a hundred or more thatched huts of similar construction. There was no gate. Ladders that could be removed by night led over the palisade. ...

— Pellucidar • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... fled, but they retreated to a mountain called Olokrus. Poseidonius tells us that Aemilius tore his clothes in despair at seeing these men give ground, while the other Romans were confounded at the phalanx, which could not be assailed, but with its close line of spears, like a palisade, offered no point for attack. But when he saw that, from the inequalities of the ground, and the length of their line, the Macedonian phalanx did not preserve its alignment, and was breaking into gaps and breaches, as is natural should happen ...

— Plutarch's Lives, Volume I (of 4) • Plutarch

... the car north, not with the idea of further observation, but because standing still in the face of that towering palisade seemed somehow to invite immediate destruction. I drove slowly and thoughtfully and then at Melrose the grass came in sight again, creeping down from Los Feliz. I turned back toward the Civic Center. It would not be more ...

— Greener Than You Think • Ward Moore

... Without the palisade of the sacred ground was a taller one, barring the doings of the council of witch-doctors and chiefs from the lay public, who were confined to their own huts under the penalty of a hideous death, or an enormous fine, as the ...

— Witch-Doctors • Charles Beadle

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