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Barricade   /bˈærəkˌeɪd/  /bˈɛrəkˌeɪd/   Listen
Barricade

noun
1.
A barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc..  Synonym: roadblock.
2.
A barrier (usually thrown up hastily) to impede the advance of an enemy.
verb
(past & past part. barricaded; pres. part. barricading)
1.
Render unsuitable for passage.  Synonyms: bar, block, block off, block up, blockade, stop.  "Barricade the streets" , "Stop the busy road"
2.
Prevent access to by barricading.
3.
Block off with barricades.  Synonym: barricado.






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"Barricade" Quotes from Famous Books



... followed the company as it swept up the street. Presently they came to a barricade, behind which the marines had taken a stand. The boys expected the command to halt, but instead they passed the barricade and pushed onward toward the outskirts of ...
— The Broncho Rider Boys with Funston at Vera Cruz - Or, Upholding the Honor of the Stars and Stripes • Frank Fowler

... same, I'll make sure," said Blake. He dived into the barricade passage, and quickly reappeared, dragging at the butt of the date palm. "There, me lud; the door is shut. Nobody is going to walk in on our private ...
— Out of the Primitive • Robert Ames Bennet

... myself received above half a dozen notices, and my son there, as many; some threatening life, others property, and I suppose the result will be, that I must reside for safety in the metropolis. My house is this moment in a state of barricade—look at my windows, literally checkered with stancheon bars—and as for arms, let me see, we have six blunderbusses, eight cases of pistols, four muskets, two carbines, with a variety of side arms, amounting to a couple of dozen. Such, sir, is the state of the ...
— Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent - The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two • William Carleton

... beyond, which still kept their form but never would move again; the melting away of skirmish points; the sudden gaps here and there; the sickening incurving of what a moment before had been a straight line—all these he saw in all their fatal significance. But even at this moment, coming upon a hasty barricade of overset commissary wagons, he stopped to glance at a familiar figure he had seen but an hour ago, who now seemed to be commanding a group of collected stragglers and camp followers. Mounted on ...
— Clarence • Bret Harte

... flame the smouldering spirit of lawlessness and insurrection in the mob. A savage rage seemed to have taken possession of the men as, with frantic haste and mad delight, they tore up cobble-stones and built a huge barricade across the track. When it was completed, Carrots darted up on top of it and waved a red handkerchief above his head. A hoarse roar of approval broke from the mob, but Steel sternly ordered the boy down ...
— The Bishop's Shadow • I. T. Thurston


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