palisade

In the city of New Amsterdam, they grew crops and constructed important sites, including the palisade in 1653 that gave today’s Wall Street its name.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

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

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

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

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

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

And yet Odysseus gazed out marvelling at the ships and harbors, public squares, and ramparts towering up with pointed palisades along the top.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

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

To lessen the labour, he took the embankment as one wall, and palisaded the top for about a hundred yards.

From Swift and Sure by Herbert Strang

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

Another Indian habitation with pitched roof and palisaded walls once stood in a spot north of the present Pamunkey Indian Reservation, near West Point, Virginia.

From Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century by Henry Chandlee Forman

Then the Iroquois made them their hunting-ground; and beyond, in the valleys of the Mohawk, the Onondaga, and the Genesee, stretched the long line of their five cantons and palisaded towns.

From Historic Handbook of the Northern Tour by Francis Parkman

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

Traversing the path with rapid footsteps we soon reached the palisading which inclosed the garden, passed through the gate, and found ourselves in sight of the house.

From The Congo Rovers A Story of the Slave Squadron by J. Schonberg

Sometimes the gardens and cornfields were inside this palisading, sometimes outside.

From American Indians by Frederick Starr

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 Felix Dahn

I have five men from the village where we were, and they can cut through the palisading behind the hut.

From On the Irrawaddy A Story of the First Burmese War by William Heysham Overend