A barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc.

Usage examples of barricade.

There, stretched out amongst the corpses, in the middle of the barricade, with his hair in the gutter, was seen the all-but namesake of Charpentier, Carpentier, the delegate of the committee of the Tenth Arrondissement, who had been killed, and had fallen backwards, with two balls in his breast.

I took the precaution of making certain from time to time, as I trod the crooked streets that straggled down the cliff between cave-houses excavated from the rock and swallow-houses jutting out from it, that I could still see the familiar shape of the bartizan, with its barricaded gate and black gonfalon.

During this time, at a corner of the barricade, Bastide, impassive, was gravely telling a story to Madier de Montjau.

Maigne firstly, then Brillier, then Bruckner, later on Charmaule, Madier de Montjau, Bastide, and Dulac came to report to us what had passed at the barricade of St.

In another barricade Bastide, compelled to absent himself for a moment, placed his pipe on a paving-stone.

Lugging sonic battering rams, the new penetration team--five times the size of the previous squad--rushed up to the barricaded doors on the quiet side of the sprawling facility, choosing to enter through wings less likely to be occupied by the murderous compies.

The brutish soldiers had immediately constructed barricades across both bridges, barricades that now kept the Zhentish from fleeing the giants and dragons.

There were now many courtiers and officials, malingerers, who refused to take part in the approaching struggle and barricaded themselves inside their mansions.

Lo Manto picked up his pace, jumped over a fallen wooden police barricade, and crossed the divider leading to the main drag just outside the confines of the stadium.

There is another kind of millenarian summons, a militant call that tends to place the faithful in barricaded buildings, often in remote mountain country, with a stock of ready weapons.

Looking more like a spaceman than an anthropologist, I nodded to the guard, circled the barricade, and crossed to the temporary morgue for an update.

Chalminski had to offerand powered herself down at him with the equivalent force of a locomotive crashing through a barricade of Swiss cheese.

Jews opposed their fanaticism to the fanaticism of the Christians, barricaded their houses, and precipitating themselves, their families, and their wealth, into the rivers or the flames, disappointed the malice, or at least the avarice, of their implacable foes.

Daniel followed Rose through courtyards and houses, and then through a narrow opening in a punji stake fence and a bamboo barricade, a traditional structure designed to protect the villagers from the occasional tiger.

Polters and pyros destroyed Imperial buildings and refuges, torched barracks and tore down barricades, unstoppable avatars of destruction.