# palisade
## English
### 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.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌpælɪˈseɪd/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪd

### Noun

palisade (plural palisades)
* A long, strong stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other sharpened.
* (military) A wall of wooden stakes, used as a defensive barrier.
** 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:We had soon touched land in the same place as before and set to provision the blockhouse. All three made the first journey, heavily laden, and tossed our stores over the palisade.
** 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 261:I realize how universal the desire to injure your fellow man is. … Only hear the government of laws and lawyers puts a palisade up. They can injure you a lot, make your life hideous, but they can't actually do you in.
* A line of cliffs, especially one showing basaltic columns.
* (biology) An even row of cells, e.g., palisade mesophyll cells.

#### Derived terms

* Pacific Palisades
* palisade cell
* palisade mesophyll
* palisade tissue
* palisade worm
* palisadic

#### Translations
### Verb

palisade (third-person singular simple present palisades, present participle palisading, simple past and past participle palisaded)
* (transitive, usually in the passive, also intransitive) To equip with a palisade.
** 1871, James Fenimore Cooper, Wyandotte‎:The Hut, well palisaded, would make a work that could not be easily carried, without artillery."
** 1890, John Fiske, Civil Government in the United States Considered with‎: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.
** 1909, John R. Musick, The Real America in Romance, Volume 6; A Century Too Soon (A Story‎:They stood at bay in an old palisaded fort.
** 1957, Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker, Bacon's Rebellion, 1676‎: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.

## Danish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French palissade.

### Noun

palisade c (singular definite palisaden, plural indefinite palisader)
* palisade (stick)
* palisade (wall of sticks)

#### Declension
### References

* “palisade” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Indonesian
### Etymology

Internationalism, borrowed from Dutch palissade, from French palissade.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /paliˈsadə/
* Rhymes: -də, -ə
* Hyphenation: pa‧li‧sa‧dê

### Noun

palisadê (plural palisade-palisade)
* palisade:
** (military) a wall of wooden stakes, used as a defensive barrier
** (biology) an even row of cells

#### Alternative forms

* palisad (Johor-Riau)