palisado

[ pal-uh-sey-doh ]

noun

plural: palisadoespalisadoed palisadoing

1. palisade ( defs 1, 2, 4, 5 ).

Other Words From

• unpal·i·sadoed adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of palisado¹

From the Spanish word palizada

Example Sentences

Your palisado is a pretty sort of bodkin, about the thickness of my leg.

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Steep rocks and everlasting hills are their castles; the tangled, pathless thicket their palisado, and God is their ally.

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"Enter," said the stranger, lowering the piece of the palisado for the passage of his companion.

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And first having felled trees, he therewith made a palisado about the town that none might go out.

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The stranger was still speaking, when a small quivering flame played on the corners of the palisado nearest the burning pile.

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