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

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

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 ● Jul. 11, 2021

Dark hearts of oak he split and trimmed for a high palisade around it, and built twelve sties adjoining in this yard to hold the livestock.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

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

Survivors from his expedition described large towns of thatched houses, surrounded by strong palisades and watchtowers.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

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

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

Here they dwell in the “raths,” old earth-forts, or earthen bases of later palisaded dwellings of the Norman period, and in the subterranean houses, common also in Scotland.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various

Leaving Luke in the boat, I scrambled up the bank, which sloped steeply, and was palisaded at top to the height of six feet.

From The MS. in a Red Box by John Arthur Hamilton

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

Their posts were only six in all, and were mainly fortified with palisaded enclosures, with howitzers and swivels, and with men trained to the use of guns.

From On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada by Julian Ralph

Half-closed redoubt for infantry—Platforms for machine-guns at angles—Wrought-iron palisading at bottom of ditch.

From Spies of the Kaiser Plotting the Downfall of England by William Le Queux

Each had its own doorway, a massive piece of palisading.

From The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood by Arthur Griffiths

Its real strength, however, could not well be perceived, as it was hidden by the high palisading which surrounded the whole establishment.

From The Phantom Ship by Frederick Marryat

The strictest guard was kept at the openings in the palisading, but soldiers off duty were free to amuse themselves.

From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Lewis Wingfield

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