palisadoes
- plural of palisado.
Example Sentences
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In the February, 1625 census listings, there were two houses, a store, and two palisadoes.
From The First Seventeen Years: Virginia 1607-1624 by Hatch, Charles E.
When he reached the postern in the palisadoes, he stopped to call to those above him, in order to learn if any yet lingered without the wooden barriers.
From The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish by Cooper, James Fenimore
Lighted by a moon that was full, though clouded they passed a gateway between two of the outer buildings, and descended to the palisadoes.
From The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish by Cooper, James Fenimore
The thirty survivors of the garrison and all the prisoners from Santa Katalina, were set to work to drive in new palisadoes in the place of those burnt in the attack.
From On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. by Masefield, John
It had the large total of eighty-nine houses besides twenty stores, all beyond Hampton River, and twenty-four palisadoes.
From The First Seventeen Years: Virginia 1607-1624 by Hatch, Charles E.
