estacade

English

Etymology

French; compare Italian steccata, Spanish estacada, and English stake.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛstəkeɪd/

Noun

estacade (plural estacades)

1. (military) A dike of piles in the sea, a river, etc., to hinder the approach of an enemy.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “estacade”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• caseated

French

Etymology

From Middle French estacade, estaquade, enstacatte, from Italian steccata, ultimately of Germanic origin, from Frankish *stakkō or Frankish *stikkō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛs.ta.kad/

• Audio:

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Noun

estacade f (plural estacades)

1. estacade
2. wooden pile bridge

Further reading

• “estacade” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
• “estacade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Paronyms

• estocade