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palisade

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Noun, Verb (transitive)
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pal=i=sade

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun palisade has 1 sense

Verb palisade has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

palisaden. [F. palissade, cf. Sp. palizada, It. palizzata, palizzo, LL. palissata; all fr. L. palus a stake, pale. See Pale a stake.].
  •  A strong, long stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other is sharpened; also, a fence formed of such stakes set in the ground as a means of defense.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Any fence made of pales or sharp stakes.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A line of bold cliffs, esp. one showing basaltic columns; -- usually in pl., and orig. used as the name of the cliffs on the west bank of the lower Hudson.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Palisade cells (Bot.), vertically elongated parenchyma cells, such as are seen beneath the epidermis of the upper surface of many leaves. -- Palisade worm (Zoöl.), a nematoid worm (Strongylus armatus), parasitic in the blood vessels of the horse, in which it produces aneurisms, often fatal.
palisadev. t. [Cf. F. palissader.].
     To surround, inclose, or fortify, with palisades.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

palisade, n. & v.
--n.
1 a a fence of pales or iron railings. b a strong pointed wooden stake used in a close row for defence.
2 US (in pl.) a line of high cliffs.
--v.tr. enclose or provide with a palisade.

Idiom
palisade layer Bot. a layer of elongated cells below the epidermis.
Etymology
F palissade f. Prov. palissada f. palissa paling ult. f. L palus stake

THESAURUS

palisade

abatis, advanced work, arm, armor, armor-plate, balistraria, bank, banquette, bar, barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barricade, barrier, bartizan, bastion, battle, battlement, blockade, bluff, breastwork, bulkhead in, bulwark, casemate, castellate, cheval-de-frise, circumvallation, cliff, contravallation, counterscarp, crag, crenellate, curtain, demibastion, dig in, dike, drawbridge, earthwork, embattle, enclosure, entanglement, entrench, escarp, escarpment, face, fence, fieldwork, fortalice, fortification, fortify, garrison, glacis, hedge, hem, leg, loophole, lunette, machicolation, man, man the garrison, mantelet, merlon, mine, mound, outwork, pale, palisades, parados, parapet, peg, picket, pile, portcullis, postern gate, precipice, rail, rampart, ravelin, redan, redoubt, sally port, scar, scarp, sconce, shank, spile, stake, steep, stockade, tenaille, vallation, vallum, wall, work

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Defense

N defense, protection, guard, ward, shielding, propugnation, preservation, guardianship, area defense, site defense, self-defense, self-preservation, resistance, safeguard, balistraria, bunker, screen, camouflage, fortification, munition, muniment, trench, foxhole, bulwark, fosse, moat, ditch, entrenchment, intrenchment, kila, dike, dyke, parapet, sunk fence, embankment, mound, mole, bank, sandbag, revetment, earth work, field- work, fence, wall dead wall, contravallation, paling, palisade, haha, stockade, stoccado, laager, sangar, barrier, barricade, boom, portcullis, chevaux de frise, abatis, abattis, abbatis, vallum, circumvallation, battlement, rampart, scarp, escarp, counter-scarp, glacis, casemate, vallation, vanfos, buttress, abutment, shore, breastwork, banquette, curtain, mantlet, bastion, redan, ravelin, vauntmure, advance work, horn work, outwork, barbacan, barbican, redoubt, fort-elage, fort-alice, lines, loophole, machicolation, sally port, hold, stronghold, fastness, asylum, keep, donjon, dungeon, fortress, citadel, capitol, castle, tower of strength, tower of strength, fort, barracoon, pah, sconce, martello tower, peelhouse, blockhouse, rath, wooden walls, bulletproof vest, armored vest, buffer, corner stone, fender, apron, mask, gauntlet, thimble, carapace, armor, shield, buckler, aegis, breastplate, backplate, cowcatcher, face guard, scutum, cuirass, habergeon, mail, coat of mail, brigandine, hauberk, lorication, helmet, helm, bassinet, salade, heaume, morion, murrion, armet, cabaset, vizor, casquetel, siege cap, headpiece, casque, pickelhaube, vambrace, shako, bearskin, panoply, truncheon, garrison, picket, piquet, defender, protector, guardian, bodyguard, champion, knight-errant, Paladin, propugner, bulletproof window, hardened site, defending, defensive, mural, armed, armed at all points, armed cap-a-pie, armed to the teeth, panoplied, iron-plated, ironclad, loopholed, castellated, machicolated, casemated, defended, proof against, armored, ballproof, bulletproof, hardened, defensively, on the defense, on the defensive, in defense, at bay, pro aris et focis, Int, no surrender!, defense not defiance, Dieu defend le droit, fidei defensor, defender of the faith.

Prison

N prison, prison house, jail, gaol, cage, coop, den, cell, stronghold, fortress, keep, donjon, dungeon, Bastille, oubliette, bridewell, house of correction, hulks, tollbooth, panopticon, penitentiary, guardroom, lockup, hold, round house, watch house, station house, sponging house, station, house of detention, black hole, pen, fold, pound, inclosure, isolation (exclusion), penal settlement, penal colony, bilboes, stocks, limbo, quod, calaboose, chauki, choky, thana, workhouse, Newgate, Fleet, Marshalsea, King's Bench, Queen's Bench, bond, bandage, irons, pinion, gyve, fetter, shackle, trammel, manacle, handcuff, straight jacket, strait jacket, strait-jacket, strait-waistcoat, hopples, vice, vise, yoke, collar, halter, harness, muzzle, gag, bit, brake, curb, snaffle, bridle, rein, reins, bearing rein, martingale, leading string, tether, picket, band, guy, chain, cord, cavesson, hackamore, headstall, jaquima, lines, ribbons, bolt, deadbolt, bar, lock, police lock, combination lock, padlock, rail, wall, stone wall, paling, palisade, fence, picket fence, barbed wire fence, Cyclone fence, stockade fence, chain-link fence, barrier, barricade, drag.

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