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
The numerous small bumps in the palisade parenchyma cells are chloroplasts.
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
I explain to Richard that we are about to race to the palisade wall.
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
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
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The sun had already slipped behind the palisades, on the west side of the river.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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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
Then the Iroquois made them their hunting-ground; and beyond, in the valleys of the Mohawk, the Onondaga, and the Genesee, stretched the long line of their five cantons and palisaded towns.
From Historic Handbook of the Northern Tour by Francis Parkman
Ojeda collected a few of his followers, and made a desperate resistance from the interior of a palisaded enclosure.
From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 by Frederick Whymper
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
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
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
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 William Heysham Overend
Elsewhere in dreadful guise Mezentius brandishes his Etruscan pine and hurls smoking brands; but Messapus, tamer of horses, seed of Neptune, tears away the palisading and calls for ladders to the ramparts.
From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
As silence—an ominous silence full of danger and portent—fell upon us again here, we could tell that quite as desperate a struggle was going on at other points of the palisading.
From Mass' George A Boy's Adventures in the Old Savannah by W.T. Smith
They are connected with the palisading by rose, shamrock and thistle.
From The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 28, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by George Newnes
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