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

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

Below the palisade parenchyma are loosely arranged cells of an irregular shape.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

Dark hearts of oak he split and trimmed for a high palisade around it, and built twelve sties adjoining in this yard to hold the livestock.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

They documented the defensive architecture, a network of deep ditches, banks, and palisades surrounding a cluster of houses.

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

The trolley ran along the bluff overlooking the palisades of the Potomac.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 6, 2021

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

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

Trees to either side rose up like palisades.

From "The Fighting Ground" by Avi

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

It abutts on a palisaded earthwork that can be easily taken.

From The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by Eug?ne Sue

It was a dutiful effort to remember that the Hôtel de Ville had not always been a mangled pile, its palisaded courtyard once something other than the site of a Y.M.C.A. hut.

From Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

Herr Stavenüter escorted his guests into the palisaded enclosure in which six or seven families of pheasants led a comfortable, petted life.

From Royal Highness by Thomas Mann

She saw her people build a strong, new palisaded village there.

From The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha The Lily of the Mohawks by Ellen H. Walworth

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

Round the outer palisading Of the diamond walls are watching Many hosts from the Sabaoth Of the King of all these bright realms.

From A Leaf from the Old Forest by John D. Cossar

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

Behind the palisading men were seen, as if watching the approach, and ready to receive them in a hostile manner.

From The White Squaw by Mayne Reid

To this venerable ruin, which an iron palisading protects from wanton hands, clings the tradition that Parliaments of King John and Edward the First met under its shade, the last in October, 1290.

From The Dukeries by E. W. Haslehust