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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 mesophyll has two layers: an upper palisade layer comprised of tightly packed, columnar cells, and a lower spongy layer, comprised of loosely packed, irregularly shaped cells.

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

At the same time the palisade was also intended to welcome the citizenry—anyone could freely pass through its dozen or so wide gates.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

Survivors from his expedition described large towns of thatched houses, surrounded by strong palisades and watchtowers.

From Textbooks Jan. 18, 2018

On the palisades in front of the church hang red banners proclaiming the fifth commandment of the Catholic catechism: Huwag kang papatay, it reads.

From Time Jan. 16, 2017

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

Above the palisaded gate the torso of a square-headed Tartar was visible, with his elbows resting on the ramparts, holding his long musket in his hand.

From The Slaves of the Padishah by M?r J?kai

Even churches were palisaded in, as for example, the first church on the Eastern shore.

From Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century by Henry Chandlee Forman

Ojeda collected a few of his followers, and made a desperate resistance from the interior of a palisaded enclosure.

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 by Frederick Whymper

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 Eug?ne Sue

When I knew the place intimately, on the very highest part of the Park was a large enclosure of the wild forest, railed in with high wooden palisading.

From Spanish Life in Town and Country by William Harbutt Dawson

As silence—an ominous silence full of danger and portent—fell upon us again here, we could tell that quite as desperate a struggle was going on at other points of the palisading.

From Mass' George A Boy's Adventures in the Old Savannah by W.T. Smith

Its real strength, however, could not well be perceived, as it was hidden by the high palisading which surrounded the whole establishment.

From The Phantom Ship by Frederick Marryat

Haliburton116 mentions the difficulty that the governor had to employ the settlers by sending them out on various expeditions, in palisading the town, and in other public works.

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 by Frederick Whymper

In fortification, a space running along the outside of the ditch for the convenient passage of troops and guns, covered from the country by a palisading and the parapet of the glacis.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher




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