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palisade

[pal-uh-seyd] / ˌpæl əˈseɪd /


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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

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

He had never thought to find a stone castle on the far side of the Wall, but he had pictured some sort of motte-and-bailey with a wooden palisade and a timber tower keep.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

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

He is the carpenter overseeing the building of the palisades.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

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 task of building a palisaded Indian castle was slow and tedious,—the work of many long months, with their primitive methods.

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

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 Strang, Herbert

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 Greely, Adolphus W.

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 Mann, Thomas

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 Haslehust, E. W.

At each side of this construction was a species of fortification, constructed of high palisading and earth-works.

From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Hoffmann, Ernst Theordor Wilhelm

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 Overend, William Heysham

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 Whymper, Frederick

La Salle peered along the glow of the fire and beyond where the sparks were beaten back, then rose and approached the palisading, Onawa clinging to him like a shadow.

From The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec by Trevena, John




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