palisado

American  

[pal-uh-say-doh] / ˌpæl əˈseɪ doʊ /

noun

• palisadoes
  plural

1. palisade.

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• unpalisadoed
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• palisadoes
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of palisado

From the Spanish word palizada

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Example Sentences

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palisado palisadoes

Upon those first scattered plantations, a characteristic feature was such a strong-house or "block-house" surrounded by a stockade or "palisado" of logs.

From Virginia: the Old Dominion by Frank W. Hutchins

Then your palisado, pray what may he be?

From The Recruiting Officer by George Farquhar

Some strong houses were always surrounded by a stockade, or "palisado," of heavy, well-fitted logs, which thus formed a garrison, or neighborhood resort, in time of danger.

From Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle

It was surrounded by a palisado, and surmounted by a belfry with a bell, and was undoubtedly a plain structure, so far as the scanty records give any light upon it.

From The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4 by Various

Your palisado is a pretty sort of bodkin, about the thickness of my leg.

From The Recruiting Officer by George Farquhar

To make the approach more difficult, they also dug trenches between the walls of palisadoes, and especially on the outer side, heaping up the earth at the base of the fortifications.

From The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha The Lily of the Mohawks by Ellen H. Walworth

"Nay, nay, Ruth; dost not remember that the beast is the favorite of my father, who will ill brook his passing a night within the palisadoes?"

From The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish by James Fenimore Cooper

The defences at the top of the hill were reinforced with palisadoes.

From On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. by John Masefield

More familiar is culverin, Fr. couleuvrine, a derivative of couleuvre, adder, Lat. coluber— "And thou hast talk'd Of sallies and retires, of trenches, tents, Of palisadoes, frontiers, parapets, Of basilisks, of cannon, culverin."

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley

These outside palisadoes, reaching almost to a man's height above the platform, were set short spaces apart, and covered near the top with a solid surface of thick bark.

From The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha The Lily of the Mohawks by Ellen H. Walworth

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