barricade

Etymology

Borrowed from French barricade.

noun

1. A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defence
2. An obstacle, barrier, or bulwark.
   Her future friend from grade six, Millie Mirarch, was often caught in various parts of the school being told that she was extremely pretty —for a girl with teeth held together by a metal wire that protruded well beyond the barricade of her lips. · 2019, Roshini Sharma, Dr. Scoop and The N.E.R.D.S.: The Frankfurter of Doom
   Salah will ask himself forever how he did not score at least one goal here. He might have nightmares featuring the face of Courtois, such was the one-man barricade he formed. 28 May 2022, Phil McCulty, “Liverpool 0-1 Real Madrid”, in BBC Sport
3. (figurative, in the plural) A place of confrontation.

verb

1. to close or block a road etc., using a barricade
2. to keep someone in (or out), using a blockade, especially ships in a port