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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Ellen H. Walworth

The chief magistrate of the place, John Sanders Glen by name, lived outside the town in a palisaded and fortified dwelling, which he was prepared to defend.

From Count Frontenac Makers of Canada, Volume 3 by William Dawson LeSueur

And now, facing the sea, a strong palisaded fort was built, and completely clayed over, so as to be almost invisible from the sea.

From Annie o' the Banks o' Dee by Gordon Stables

They lived in cleverly and strongly palisaded villages and their agricultural activities, falling to the women's share of tribal work, were probably further advanced than those of any other Indians north of Mexico.

From Legends of Loudoun An account of the history and homes of a border county of Virginia's Northern Neck by Harrison Williams

Sometimes the gardens and cornfields were inside this palisading, sometimes outside.

From American Indians by Frederick Starr

To reach this from Ollerton one crosses the bridge, turns to the right for a few yards, then on the left sees beyond a stout palisading the celebrated Beech Avenue.

From The Dukeries by E. W. Haslehust

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

"I see you are admiring that semicircle of splendid heads that crown the palisading of the Sheldonian," said Bingham, as they came up close to the historic building.

From The New Warden by Mrs. David G. Ritchie

Often these heavy timbers were set close enough to touch each other, when they are called "palisading."

From Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century by Henry Chandlee Forman