barricado
Americannoun
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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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
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.
From Palm Tree Island by Strang, Herbert
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
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 Tench, Watkin
"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.
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 Belcher, Edward, Sir
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 Shakespeare, William
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 Behrend, Arthur C.
Because no barricadoes have been made at Blois.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Scott, Walter, Sir
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 by Shakespeare, William
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 Kingston, William Henry Giles
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 Burslem, Rollo Gillespie
He confined his exertions to the town, barricadoed the streets, and posted men in the bye-lanes and houses.
From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. by Thomson, Mrs.
The passages are well barricadoed with timber and huge fragments of rock.
From The Rise of Iskander by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
They fortified themselves, however, in the streets and lanes, which they barricadoed.
From Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada by Irving, Washington
Well, Mascari," said the prince, looking up towards his parasite, who stood by the embrasure of the deep-set barricadoed window,—"well! the Cardinal sleeps with his fathers.
From Zanoni by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
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 Cooper, James Fenimore
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 Zeitlin, Jacob
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 Jones, Edmund David
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