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palisade

[pal-uh-seyd] / ˌpæl əˈseɪd /


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At Amnya, her team also noted a possible sign of social stratification, another development often linked to agriculture: a cluster of houses that sat, undefended, outside the palisade.

From Science Magazine Nov. 29, 2023

Buckingham Palace was taken aback, and it responded with a terse, 61-word statement that sought to contain the drama within the familiar royal palisade of privacy.

From New York Times Sep. 8, 2022

The numerous small bumps in the palisade parenchyma cells are chloroplasts.

From Textbooks Jun. 9, 2022

Eight stories tall, Solaris features a sleek palisade of broad teak-covered decks suitable for hosting a horde of well-heeled partygoers.

From Seattle Times Mar. 5, 2022

Flames lick their way down the palisade, spreading like spilled wine.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

With room inside for dozens of people and dwellings sunk almost 2 meters deep for warmth in Siberian winters, the fortresses were ringed by earthen walls several meters high and topped with wooden palisades.

From Science Magazine Nov. 29, 2023

The noodle house may be hard to find because it’s literally overshadowed by the palisades of the Great Wall Shopping Mall nearby.

From Seattle Times Jul. 8, 2022

The trolley ran along the bluff overlooking the palisades of the Potomac.

From Washington Post Feb. 6, 2021

They made houses from bent saplings covered with bark, mats, or hides, and sometimes surrounded their villages with log palisades.

From Textbooks Jan. 18, 2018

Nevertheless, by Tisquantum’s time defensive palisades were increasingly common, especially in the river valleys.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Last March, Historic St. Mary’s City announced that the outlines of the palisaded fort, erected by White settlers in 1634, had finally been discovered.

From Washington Post Jan. 23, 2022

Here they dwell in the “raths,” old earth-forts, or earthen bases of later palisaded dwellings of the Norman period, and in the subterranean houses, common also in Scotland.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various

She was the first to set foot upon the narrow strip surrounding the moat and beyond which rose the palisaded entrenchment.

From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Sue, Eug?ne

In the second, Stuart succeeded in forming a new line, supported by a brick house and palisaded garden, and from this position Greene was unable to drive him.

From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) by Freneau, Philip

MacFarlane told him that the country was so wild that Fort Eskimo was palisaded, flanked with bastions, and loop-holed for rifle-fire, owing to the desperate character of the surrounding and hostile tribes.

From True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World by Greely, Adolphus W.

Round the outer palisading Of the diamond walls are watching Many hosts from the Sabaoth Of the King of all these bright realms.

From A Leaf from the Old Forest by Cossar, John D.

Another minute, and four shadowy shapes stole noiselessly across the compound, to vanish almost instantly in the deeper shadows of the palisading.

From The Log of the Flying Fish A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure by Browne, Gordon

A few of these dwellings are, however, of superior form and fabric; and one stands forth in all the glories of palisading, and if I mistake not, bright green verandahs.

From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous

Often these heavy timbers were set close enough to touch each other, when they are called "palisading."

From Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century by Forman, Henry Chandlee

The dying watch-fires were speedily fanned into flame; hundreds of fire-brands flew into the dry planks of the palisading.

From A Struggle for Rome, Vol. 2 (of 3) by Dahn, Felix




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