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/bˈærəkˌeɪd/ /bˈɛrəkˌeɪd/ Listen

noun

Barricade n.

(Mil.) A fortification, made in haste, of trees, earth, palisades, wagons, or anything that will obstruct the progress or attack of an enemy. It is usually an obstruction formed in streets to block an enemy's access.

Any bar, obstruction, or means of defense. "Such a barricade as would greatly annoy, or absolutely stop, the currents of the atmosphere."

verb

Barricade v. t. (past & past part. barricaded; pres. part. barricading) To fortify or close with a barricade or with barricades; to stop up, as a passage; to obstruct; as, the workmen barricaded the streets of Paris. "The further end whereof (a bridge) was barricaded with barrels."

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Etymology of 'Barricade'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Barricade" Quotes from Famous Books

... bark as he escaped down the Tyber in the habit of a monk. But he still possessed in the castle of St. Angelo a faithful garrison and a train of artillery: their batteries incessantly thundered on the city, and a bullet more dexterously pointed broke down the barricade of the bridge, and scattered with a single shot the heroes of the republic. Their constancy was exhausted by a rebellion of five months. Under the tyranny of the Ghibeline nobles, the wisest patriots regretted the dominion of the church; ...

— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 6 • Edward Gibbon

... buttoned the tent-flaps outside, and placed a barricade of kettles and pans which could not be touched without disturbing him on the hill. Then, taking up his own bed, he marched off through the ferns, edging his burden among ...

— Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 • Various

... and Harris were certain that I was the most dangerous man on board. Before I could say a word I might be seized and ironed, if not shot on sight. Perhaps the wiser course would be to get to my room and barricade myself until affairs were more settled, or until we had the light of day and I could know with whom ...

— The Devil's Admiral • Frederick Ferdinand Moore

... is at hand," he whispered; "in a few hours we will attack Sweyn's galley; barricade yourself in your cabin until ...

— The Dragon and the Raven - or, The Days of King Alfred • G. A. Henty

... with lanterns swinging bow and stern to guide the hunters home. The eight hundred hostiles had fortified themselves behind the site of the modern Sitka. Palisades the depth of two spruce logs ran across the front of the {312} rough barricade, loopholed for musketry, and protected by a sort of cheval-de-frise of brushwood and spines. At the rear of the enemy's fort ran sally ports leading to the ambush of the woods, and inside were huts enough to house a small town. By the 28th of September Baranof's Aleut ...

— Vikings of the Pacific - The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward • Agnes C. Laut

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