palisade

See also: Palisade

English

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpælɪˈseɪd/

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• Rhymes: -eɪd

Simple palisade fort.

Noun

palisade (plural palisades)

1. A long, strong stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other sharpened.
2. (military) A wall of wooden stakes, used as a defensive barrier.
   • 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:

     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.

   • 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 261:

     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.

3. A line of cliffs, especially one showing basaltic columns.
4. (biology) An even row of cells. e.g.: palisade mesophyll cells.

Derived terms

• palisade cell
• palisade worm
• palisadic

 

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *peh₂ǵ-‎ (0 c, 21 e)

Translations

long, strong stake with sharpened head

• Bulgarian: кол (bg) m (kol)
• Finnish: paalu (fi), teroitettu paalu
• Hungarian: oszlopos (hu)
• Swedish: palissad (sv) c

wall of wooden stakes

• Assamese: হেঙাৰ (heṅar)
• Bulgarian: палисада (palisada)
• Catalan: palissada f
• Czech: palisáda f
• Dutch: palissade (nl) f
• Estonian: pihtaed
• Finnish: paaluaita, paaluvarustus (fi), palisadi (fi)
• French: palissade (fr) f
• German: Palisade (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: χάραξ f (khárax)

• Italian: palizzata (it) f
• Latin: vallum n, vallus m, sublica f
• Macedonian: палиса́да f (palisáda)
• Maori: takitaki, tātākaitaua, pātūtū, pekerangi, kiritangata, awhikiri, hukahuka, kereteki, tīwatawata, pīwatawata, reu, wītā
• Ottoman Turkish: شرانپول (şarampol)
• Polish: palisada (pl) f, częstokół m, ostrokół (pl) m
• Portuguese: paliçada (pt)
• Romanian: palisadă (ro) f, palancă (ro) f
• Russian: палиса́д (ru) m (palisád), частоко́л (ru) m (častokól)
• Spanish: palizada f
• Swedish: palissad (sv) c, pålverk (sv) n
• Turkish: şarampol (tr)

a line of cliffs

• Bulgarian: отвесни скали (otvesni skali)

Verb

palisade (third-person singular simple present palisades, present participle palisading, simple past and past participle palisaded)

1. (transitive, usually in the passive) To equip with a palisade.
   • 1871, James Fenimore Cooper, Wyandotte‎^[1]:

     The Hut, well palisaded, would make a work that could not be easily carried, without artillery."

   • 1890, John Fiske, Civil Government in the United States Considered with‎^[2]:

     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.

   • 1909, John R. Musick, The Real America in Romance, Volume 6; A Century Too Soon (A Story‎^[3]:

     They stood at bay in an old palisaded fort.

   • 1957, Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker, Bacon's Rebellion, 1676‎^[4]:

     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.

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French palissade.

Noun

palisade c (singular definite palisaden, plural indefinite palisader)

1. palisade (stick)
2. palisade (wall of sticks)

Declension

Declension of palisade

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	palisade	palisaden	palisader	palisaderne
genitive	palisades	palisadens	palisaders	palisadernes

References

• “palisade” in Den Danske Ordbog

Indonesian

Etymology

Internationalism, borrowed from Dutch palissade, from French palissade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paliˈsadə/
• Rhymes: -də, -ə
• Hyphenation: pa‧li‧sa‧dê

Noun

palisadê (plural palisade-palisade, first-person possessive palisadeku, second-person possessive palisademu, third-person possessive palisadenya)

1. palisade:
   1. (military) a wall of wooden stakes, used as a defensive barrier.
   2. (biology) an even row of cells.

Alternative forms

• palisad (Standard Malay)