PALISADE

Palisade

A palisade – sometimes called a stakewall – is typically a fence or wall made from wooden stakes or tree trunks and used as a defensive structure.

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palisade

Noun

  1. A long, strong stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other sharpened.
  2. A wall of wooden stakes, used as a defensive barrier
  3. A line of cliffs
  4. An even row of cells. e.g.: palisade mesophyll cells.

Verb

  1. To equip with a palisade.


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