barricado

American  

[bar-i-key-doh] / ˌbær ɪˈkeɪ doʊ /

noun

plural

barricadoes, barricados

1. a barricade.

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verb (used with object)

barricadoed, barricadoing

1. to barricade.

Etymology

Origin of barricado

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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Then I asked where Hoggett was, and they told me he had barricadoed himself in the hut, and refused to give up the musket.

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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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