palisado
noun
palisadoes
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pluralof palisado.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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While the guns were deserted, the pirates ran along the bottom of the ditch, thrusting their fireballs under the palisadoes, which now began to burn in many places.
From On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. by John Masefield
You will often find that the factor, rid of all the ancient timidity that called for "palisadoes and swivels," lives on the high upper bank above the store.
From On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada by Julian Ralph
The wood of these ilex’s is serviceable for many uses, as stocks of tools, mallet-heads, mall-balls, chairs, axletrees, wedges, beetles, pins, and above all, for palisadoes us’d in fortifications.
From Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees by John Nisbet
I could have wished to have had a little part in the storm," wrote Nelson, characteristically covetous of strenuous action, "if it was only to have placed the ladders and pulled away the palisadoes.
From The Life of Nelson, Volume 1 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
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
