palisade

5 definitions found

palisade - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Palisade \Pal`i*sade"\, n. [F. palissade, cf. Sp. palizada, It.
     palizzata, palizzo, LL. palissata; all fr. L. palus a stake,
     pale. See Pale a stake.]
     1. (Fort.) 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]
  
     2. Any fence made of pales or sharp stakes.
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     3. 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 (Zool.), a nematoid worm (Strongylus  armatus
        ), parasitic in the blood vessels of the horse, in
        which it produces aneurisms, often fatal.
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  Palisade \Pal`i*sade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Palisaded; p. pr.
     & vb. n. Palisading.] [Cf. F. palissader.]
     To surround, inclose, or fortify, with palisades.
     [1913 Webster]

palisade - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  palisade
      n 1: fortification consisting of a strong fence made of stakes
           driven into the ground
      v 1: surround with a wall in order to fortify [syn: wall,
           palisade, fence, fence in, surround]

palisade - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Palisade, CO (town, FIPS 56970)
    Location: 39.10745 N, 108.35778 W
    Population (1990): 1871 (847 housing units)
    Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 81526
  Palisade, MN (city, FIPS 49498)
    Location: 46.71313 N, 93.49072 W
    Population (1990): 144 (77 housing units)
    Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 56469
  Palisade, NE (village, FIPS 38120)
    Location: 40.34841 N, 101.10669 W
    Population (1990): 381 (191 housing units)
    Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 69040

palisade - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  93 Moby Thesaurus words for "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