palisade
/ˈpæl.ɪˌseɪ̯d/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.51 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An even row of cells, e.g., palisade mesophyll cells.
name
A town in Mesa County, Colorado, United States.
Example Sentences
- "We had soon touched land in the same place as before and set to provision the blockhouse. All three made the first journey, heavily laden, and tossed our stores over the palisade."
- "Before the clearing had been half crossed the Arabs opened up a withering fire from behind the palisade."
- "I realize how universal the desire to injure your fellow man is. … Only hear the government of laws and lawyers puts a palisade up. They can injure you a lot, make your life hideous, but they can't actually do you in."
- "The Hut, well palisaded, would make a work that could not be easily carried, without artillery.""
- "But where, through the development of trade or any other cause, a good many of them grew up close together within a narrow compass, they gradually coalesced into a kind of compound town; and with the greater population and greater wealth, there was naturally more elaborate and permanent fortification than that of the palisaded village."
- "They stood at bay in an old palisaded fort."
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French palissade, from Old French, from Old Occitan palissada, from palissa (“stake”), probably from pal (“stake”), or possibly from Gallo-Romance *pālīcea, from Latin pālus (“stake”) + -ade.
Origin
- Source language: Old French