palisade

See also Palisade

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From French palissade, from Old French, from Old Provençal palissada, from palissa (“stake”), from Gallo-Romance *pālīcea, from Latin pālus (“stake”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪd

Noun

palisade (plural palisades)

1. A wall of wooden stakes, used as a defensive barrier
2. A line of cliffs
3. (biology) An even row of cells. e.g.: palisade mesophyll cells.

Translations

a wall of wooden stakes

• Dutch: palissade f
• Estonian: pihtaed (et)
• Finnish: paaluaita, paaluvarustus, palisadi
• French: palissade (fr) f
• German: Palisade (de) f

• Latin: vallum (la) n, vallus (la) m
• Macedonian: палисада (mk) (palisáda) f
• Maori: takitaki (mi)
• Polish: palisada f
• Portuguese: paliçada (pt)
• Russian: палисад (ru) (palisád) m , частокол (ru) (častokól) m 

a line of cliffs

Verb

palisade (third-person singular simple present palisades, present participle palisading, simple past and past participle palisaded)

1. (transitive, usually in the passive) To equip with a palisade.