palisade
Syllables: pa·li·sade/ˈpæl.ɪˌseɪ̯d/
palisade noun: a long, strong stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other sharpened.
Noun
palisade (plural palisades)
- A long, strong stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other sharpened.
- A wall of wooden stakes, used as a defensive barrier.
- 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.1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC
- Before the clearing had been half crossed the Arabs opened up a withering fire from behind the palisade.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 135
- A line of cliffs, especially one showing basaltic columns.
- An even row of cells, e.g., palisade mesophyll cells.
Verb
palisade (third-person singular simple present palisades, present participle palisading, simple past and past participle palisaded)
- To equip with a palisade.
- The Hut, well palisaded, would make a work that could not be easily carried, without artillery."1871, James Fenimore Cooper, Wyandotte
- 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...1890, John Fiske, Civil Government in the United States Considered with
Proper noun capitalized: Palisade
IPA/ˌpælɪˈseɪd/
Palisade
- A town in Mesa County, Colorado, United States.
palisade meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam
palisade in Hindi
- long, strong stake with sharpened head
- कटघरा kaṭgharā, कटघरे kaṭghare
- wall of wooden stakes
- कटघरा kaṭgharā, कटघरे kaṭghare
- a line of cliffs
- कटघरा kaṭgharā, कटघरे kaṭghare
palisade in Tamil
- துண்கள், கிராதிக்கம்பு, வேலி, வெளிக்கம்பு
palisade in Urdu
- جنگلہ
palisade in Malayalam
- barricade, fence, paling
- വേലി, അഴിക്കോട്ട, ക്രാസി, അഴിക്കാൽ, സ്തംഭപംക്തി, പത്തൽ
More languagesFewer languages
- palisade in Kannada
- ದಸಿಬೇಲಿ
- palisade in Assamese
- হেঙাৰ heṅar
Examples of palisade in a sentence
- I realize how universal the desire to injure your fellow man is. … Only hear the government of laws and lawyers puts a palisade up.1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 261:
- They stood at bay in an old palisaded fort.1909, John R. Musick, The Real America in Romance, Volume 6; A Century Too Soon (A Story:
- The ensuing dispute led to a bloody battle on the island, in which the English rushed up to the palisaded fort, began firing in at the portholes, and set fire to the village.1957, Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker, Bacon's Rebellion, 1676:
Forms of palisade
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | palisades |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | palisades |
| present participle | palisading |
| past participle | palisaded |
| past | palisaded |
Origin of palisade
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.
See palisade.
Words formed from palisade
Phrases with palisade
Words that rhyme with palisade
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- abraid
- blockade
- cade
- fade
- glade
- raid
- upbraid
- abrade
- crusade
- esplanade
- invade
- lade
- unlaid
- upgrade
- brigade
- brocade
- cavalcade
- colonnade
- displayed
- glissade
- grenade
- paid
- unlade
- afraid
- ambuscade
- arcade
- corrade
- degrade
- enfilade
- evade
- jade
- lemonade
- made
- maid
- persuade
- pomade
- spade
- unmade
- aide
- cannonade
- carbonade
- carronade
- clade
- cockade
- Dade
- decayed
- dragonnade
- embayed
Questions about palisade
- What does palisade mean?
- Palisade means a long, strong stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other sharpened.
- What is palisade in Hindi?
- Palisade in Hindi is कटघरा (kaṭgharā), कटघरे (kaṭghare). See Palisade meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use palisade in a sentence?
- I realize how universal the desire to injure your fellow man is. … Only hear the government of laws and lawyers puts a palisade up.
- What part of speech is palisade?
- Palisade can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce palisade?
- Palisade is pronounced /ˈpæl.ɪˌseɪ̯d/.
- What is the plural of palisade?
- The plural of palisade is palisades.
Words near palisade in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: palisade (page history and authors); Palisade (page history and authors); palisade (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); palisade (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); palisade (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); palisade (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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