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

The sight of the rooms below and of the gratings above, and of the barricado across the deck, and the explanation of the uses of all these, filled me both with melancholy and horror.

From The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament (1839) by Clarkson, Thomas

The first party I lighted on was not above sixteen men, who had made a small barricado across the road, and stood resolutely upon their guard.

From Memoirs of a Cavalier A Military Journal of the Wars in Germany, and the Wars in England. From the Year 1632 to the Year 1648. by Defoe, Daniel

"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."

From A Century of Emblems by Cautley, G. S.

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

From The Campaner Thal and Other Writings by Jean Paul

The Doctor falls down before the barricado, and is stretched all his hapless length fainting on the floor.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by Wilson, John