barricado

[bar-i-key-doh]

noun

plural

barricadoes, barricados 

1. a barricade.

verb (used with object)

barricadoed, barricadoing 

1. to barricade.

Word History and Origins

Origin of barricado¹

1580–90; a pseudo-Spanish form of barricade

Example Sentences

Thrust as I might I could not break it; the window was securely barricadoed.

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"Adown the dreadful glacis madly borne, Against that foaming barricado cast, The barque is doomed! and with a hissing scorn The surge will dance upon the foundering mast."

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I sat up, grasping my cudgel, and in a moment, it being broad daylight, I saw a little opening in the barricado, and the nose of some animal pushing through it.

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Rupert had fled the country; the followers of a sheriff's officer had barricadoed his once splendid home, and, Cerberus-like, were guarding the entrance into wretchedness and gloom.

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I asked how she had got in, as the whole chevaux-de-frise barricado of chairs was still standing fast at the door.

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