palisade

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Sometime in the 1930s, the Hungarian photographer Anna Barna shot “Onlooker,” a picture of a boy standing on a chair seen from behind as he peers over a palisade.

From New York Times

It depicts a windmill named the Pepper Mill, seen from the street under a bright sky, with a man, a women and a little girl walking in front of wooden palisades that surrounded the place.

From Seattle Times

He found that there had been a three foot deep trench where the colonists had stood the timbers for the palisade.

From Washington Post

“Usually what happens when you have a palisade, it’s a defensive work, and inside, you would have had the buildings and the structure,” she said.

From Washington Post

Guide the family on a time-travel adventure through an open-air collection of 17 historic buildings enclosed within a wooden palisade, or wall.

From Seattle Times