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Palisado   Listen
noun
Palisado  n.  (pl. palisadoes)  A palisade (1). (Obs.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Palisado" Quotes from Famous Books



... Such a prize came very opportunely, for the castle stores were running out, while the ship's crew proved useful in the bitter work of earth carrying then going on daily on the ramparts for the repairing of the palisado. Hearing that the Chagres garrison was in such good case, and so well able to exercise piracy without further help, Admiral Morgan resolved to make a longer stay in the ruins of old Panama. He arranged "to send forth daily parties of two hundred men" to roam the countryside, beating the ...
— On the Spanish Main - Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. • John Masefield

... found out that their advance Was favour'd by an accident or blunder: The Greek or Turkish Cohorn's ignorance Had palisado'd in a way you 'd wonder To see in forts of Netherlands or France (Though these to our Gibraltar must knock under)— Right in the middle of the parapet Just named, these palisades were ...
— Don Juan • Lord Byron



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