palisade

noun

1. A long, strong stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other sharpened.
2. A wall of wooden stakes, used as a defensive barrier.

   “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.”

   “Before the clearing had been half crossed the Arabs opened up a withering fire from behind the palisade.”

   “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.”

3. A line of cliffs, especially one showing basaltic columns.
4. An even row of cells, e.g., palisade mesophyll cells.

verb

1. (also, intransitive, passive, transitive, usually)To equip with a palisade.

   “The Hut, well palisaded, would make a work that could not be easily carried, without artillery."”

   “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.”

   “They stood at bay in an old palisaded fort.”

   “The ensuing dispute led to a bloody battle on the island, in which the English rushed up to the palisaded fort, began firing in at the portholes, and set fire to the village.”

name

1. A town in Mesa County, Colorado, United States.