barricado
Americannoun
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barricadoes,
plural
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barricados
plural
verb (used with object)
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Etymology
Origin of barricado
1580–90; a pseudo-Spanish form of barricade
Vocabulary lists containing barricado
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That combination has evidently to dread the rivalry of British manufacture, and its managers are too shrewd to lose this glorious opportunity of barricado.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 by Various
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 Thomas Clarkson
Confounded by a thousand ideas which arose in my mind in an instant, I sprang upon the barricado and plainly descried two ships of considerable size, standing in for the mouth of the Bay.
From A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany-Bay by Watkin Tench
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 John Wilson
Am I excluded from my own fortress; and by the way of barricado?
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 by Sir Walter Scott
Why, it hath bay windows transparent as barricadoes, and the clerestories toward the south north are as lustrous as ebony; and yet complainest thou of obstruction?
From Twelfth Night; or What You Will by William Shakespeare
Why, it hath bay windows transparent as barricadoes, and the clear storeys toward the south-north are as lustrous as ebony; and yet complainest thou of obstruction?
From Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
A small slender piece of ordnance, formerly used for ships' barricadoes.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
With his stick he commenced a more furious attack than before; and, observing us less turbulent, he appeared determined to force his way in spite of the barricadoes.
From A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide by Arthur C. Behrend
The latter; however, experienced in Moorish attack, retired in close order, sometimes turning upon the enemy and driving them to their barricadoes, and then pursuing their retreat.
From Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada by Washington Irving
He speaks of purchasing “four or five tons of corke, to send this day to the fleet, being a new device to make barricados with, instead of junke.”
From How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 by William Henry Giles Kingston
Bothwell-bridge, which is long and narrow, had then a portal in the middle, with gates, which the Covenanters shut, and barricadoed with stones and logs of timber.
From Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 2 Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in The Southern Counties of Scotland; with a Few of Modern Date, Founded Upon Local Tradition by Sir Walter Scott
This lane formed a curious natural outwork; and might easily have been barricadoed, but the deficiencies of Mr. Forster's generalship were fatal to so simple and obvious a plan of defence.
From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. by Mrs. Thomson
These 'period' spellings I have left intact: befel, chace, surprized, loth, gallopped, gallopping, secresy, shew, shewed, shewing, preeminence, handfull, negociation, threshhold, trellice, picketted, barricadoed, compaign.
From A Peep into Toorkisthhan by Rollo Gillespie Burslem
“Shut, shut! quick, quick!” some ran to ask aid from the sheriff; others in haste closed the shop, and barricadoed and secured the doors from within.
From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Alessandro Manzoni
To make short of a long story, he did not find the knife, Mr. Burke barricadoed himself in his room, and Mr. Sullivan turned his wife out of doors.
From Mornings at Bow Street A Selection of the Most Humorous and Entertaining Reports which Have Appeared in the 'Morning Herald' by John Wight
This, Coleridge said, was barricadoing the road to truth: it was setting up a turnpike-gate at every step we took.
From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Jacob Zeitlin
The doors were of extraordinary strength, and the means of barricadoing them resembled more a preparation for battle, than the usual securities against petty encroachments on private property.
From The Red Rover by James Fenimore Cooper
This, Coleridge said, was barricadoing the road to truth:—it was setting up a turnpike-gate at every step we took.
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Edmund David Jones
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