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
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
The mesophyll has two layers: an upper palisade layer comprised of tightly packed, columnar cells, and a lower spongy layer, comprised of loosely packed, irregularly shaped cells.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
On the south side of fire castle, moss grew thick upon the palisade and crept halfway up the towers.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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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
Other than the shell of a reconstructed barracks and the palisades outlining the fort, there were no other attempts at verisimilitude.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2022
Survivors from his expedition described large towns of thatched houses, surrounded by strong palisades and watchtowers.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
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One looming problem was how to color the exteriors of the main buildings, especially the staff-coated palisades of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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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
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
MacFarlane told him that the country was so wild that Fort Eskimo was palisaded, flanked with bastions, and loop-holed for rifle-fire, owing to the desperate character of the surrounding and hostile tribes.
From True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World by Adolphus W. Greely
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
The fort proper was of great strength, surrounded by a deep, wide ditch, and strongly palisaded with an exterior battery of two twenty-four pounders.
From The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 by Joel Tyler Headley
The palisading could be completed during the year, and in 1668 the village could be said to have changed.
From The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha The Lily of the Mohawks by Ellen H. Walworth
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
Without a word Sir Reginald complied, clambering first upon his companion’s back and thence noiselessly to the top of the palisading.
From The Log of the Flying Fish A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure by Gordon Browne
In fortification, a space running along the outside of the ditch for the convenient passage of troops and guns, covered from the country by a palisading and the parapet of the glacis.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
They were located in temporary huts surrounded by a palisading, and warders were raised from amongst the best behaved to be responsible for their work and general supervision.
From Prisoners Their Own Warders A Record of the Convict Prison at Singapore in the Straits Settlements Established 1825 by John Frederick Adolphus McNair
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