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palisade
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synonyms: paling, palisido ???
tags: [architecture]
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Definition:a fence of sharpened wooden or iron stakes used as a defensive barrier
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Lydgate was only two yards off on the other side of some iron palisading,
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After reloading, we walked down the outside of the palisade to see to the fallen enemy.
Robert Louis Stevenson. Treasure Island (1882)
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He provided a table sixty feet in diameter, upon which I was to act my part, and palisadoed it round three feet from the edge, and as many high, to prevent my falling over.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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There were thirtie steppes of thirtie fadome long, and they divided from the circuit of the court by a streete that went betwixt them; vpon the toppe of these steppes there was a walke thirtie foote broad, all plaistered with chalke, in the midst of which walke was a Pallisado artificially made of very high trees, planted in order a fadome one from another.
The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft volume 3
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