palisade

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French palissade, from Old French, from Old Occitan palissada, from palissa (“stake”), probably from pal (“stake”), or possibly from Gallo-Romance *pālīcea, from Latin pālus (“stake”) + -ade.

noun

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

verb

1. (transitive, usually in the passive) To equip with a palisade.
   The Hut, well palisaded, would make a work that could not be easily carried, without artillery." 1871, James Fenimore Cooper, Wyandotte
   But where, through the development of trade or any other cause, a good many of them grew up close together within a narrow compass, they gradually coalesced into a kind of compound town; and with the greater population and greater wealth, there was naturally more elaborate and permanent fortification than that of the palisaded village. 1890, John Fiske, Civil Government in the United States Considered with
   They stood at bay in an old palisaded fort. 1909, John R. Musick, The Real America in Romance, Volume 6; A Century Too Soon (A Story
   The ensuing dispute led to a bloody battle on the island, in which the English rushed up to the palisaded fort, began firing in at the portholes, and set fire to the village. 1957, Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker, Bacon's Rebellion, 1676