palisade
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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
Below the palisade parenchyma are loosely arranged cells of an irregular shape.
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
We manage to save a good part of the palisade, but the houses are virtually gone, along with everything in them.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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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
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
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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
How will we protect ourselves, with no palisades?
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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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
The individual home had palisaded walls, made of large, squared timbers, set two feet deep in the earth and rising seven feet above it.
From Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century by Henry Chandlee Forman
For this purpose a parapet 7 or 8 ft. high, with a steep slope, perhaps palisaded, up which the attackers must climb after passing the obstacle, was excellent.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
She was the first to set foot upon the narrow strip surrounding the moat and beyond which rose the palisaded entrenchment.
From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Eug?ne Sue
On a bright spring morning, May 17th, Joliet and Marquette, with five other men, left behind them the palisaded post and chapel of St. Ignace.
From Explorers and Travellers by Adolphus W. Greely
From the prisoners he had learned all details as to the fort, and found that while almost impregnable from the river face, the flank of the fort was defended chiefly by a strong palisading.
From With Cochrane the Dauntless by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Its real strength, however, could not well be perceived, as it was hidden by the high palisading which surrounded the whole establishment.
From The Phantom Ship by Frederick Marryat
But there was nothing, to our knowledge, which was unusual about that palisading, except, perhaps, its triangular shape.
From Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century by Henry Chandlee Forman
Haliburton116 mentions the difficulty that the governor had to employ the settlers by sending them out on various expeditions, in palisading the town, and in other public works.
From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 by Frederick Whymper
In due time I reached the gate in the palisading which surrounded Don Manuel’s garden and passed through.
From The Congo Rovers A Story of the Slave Squadron by J. Schonberg
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