Crossword clues for barricade
barricade
- A barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc.
- A barrier (usually thrown up hastily so as to impede the advance of an enemy)
- Creator of Wendy houses not a nice man - block!
- Obstruction about to block pub trip
- A revolutionary fortification
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Barricade \Bar`ri*cade"\, n. [F. barricade, fr. Sp. barricada, orig. a barring up with casks; fr. barrica cask, perh. fr. LL. barra bar. See Bar, n., and cf. Barrel, n.]
(Mil.) A fortification, made in haste, of trees, earth, palisades, wagons, or anything that will obstruct the progress or attack of an enemy. It is usually an obstruction formed in streets to block an enemy's access.
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Any bar, obstruction, or means of defense.
Such a barricade as would greatly annoy, or absolutely stop, the currents of the atmosphere.
--Derham.
Barricade \Bar`ri*cade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Barricaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Barricading.] [Cf. F. barricader. See Barricade, n.] To fortify or close with a barricade or with barricades; to stop up, as a passage; to obstruct; as, the workmen barricaded the streets of Paris.
The further end whereof [a bridge] was barricaded with
barrels.
--Hakluyt.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from Middle French barricader "to barricade" (1550s), from barrique "barrel," from Spanish barrica "barrel," from baril (see barrel). Revolutionary associations began during 1588 Huguenot riots in Paris, when large barrels filled with earth and stones were set up in the streets. Related: Barricaded; barricading.
1640s, from barricade (v.). Earlier was barricado (1580s) with false Spanish ending (see -ado).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defence 2 An obstacle, barrier, or bulwark. 3 (context figuratively in the plural English) A place of confrontation. vb. 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
WordNet
n. a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc. [syn: roadblock]
a barrier (usually thrown up hastily so as to impede the advance of an enemy); "they enemy stormed the barricade"
v. render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road" [syn: block, blockade, stop, block off, block up, bar]
prevent access to by barricading; "The street where the President lives is always barricaded"
block off with barricades [syn: barricado]
Wikipedia
Barricade is a 2007 horror– splatter feature film directed by Timo Rose, written by Timo Rose and Ted Geoghegan, and starring American actors Raine Brown and Joe Zaso and Germany's André Reissig, Thomas Kercmar, Manoush, and Andreas Pape.
Barricade is a clone of Blockade released by RamTeK in 1976.
Barricade is the name of four fictional characters in the various Transformers universes.
Barricade is a 1939 adventure film directed by Gregory Ratoff and starring Alice Faye, Warner Baxter, Charles Winninger, Arthur Treacher, and Keye Luke.
"Barricade" is a song by American rock band Interpol. It was released as the lead single from their self-titled fourth studio album on August 3, 2010. The song peaked at number 39 on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart and was their fourth appearance on that chart.
Barricade (1975) is Bengali drama written and directed by Utpal Dutt. The drama is set into a revolution time or war time when people's army are fighting against the state army.
Barricade is a 2012 action thriller directed by Andrew Currie. The film stars Eric McCormack. The film was released on September 9, 2012. It is the first film entirely produced by WWE Studios to not feature a wrestler in any way.
Barricade, from the French barrique (barrel), is any object or structure that creates a barrier or obstacle to control, block passage or force the flow of traffic in the desired direction. Adopted as a military term, a barricade denotes any improvised field fortification, such as on city streets during urban warfare.
Barricades also include temporary traffic barricades designed with the goal of dissuading passage into a protected or hazardous area or large slabs of cement whose goal is to actively prevent forcible passage by a vehicle. Stripes on barricades and panel devices slope downward in the direction traffic must travel.
There are also pedestrian barricades - sometimes called bike rack barricades for their resemblance to a now obsolete form of bicycle stand, or police barriers. They originated in France approximately 50 years ago and are now produced around the world. They were first produced in the U.S. 40 years ago by Friedrichs Mfg for New Orleans's Mardi Gras parades.
Anti-vehicle barriers and blast barriers are sturdy barricades that can respectively counter vehicle and bomb attacks.
A barricade is an object used to control, block passage, or force the flow of traffic in the desired direction.
Barricade may also refer to:
- An emergency system of arresting gear for aircraft.
- Barricade (1939 film), a 1939 action film directed by Gregory Ratoff and starring Alice Faye
- Barricade (1950 film), a 1950 western film starring Dane Clark, Raymond Massey, and Ruth Roman
- Barricade (2007 film), a 2007 horror film directed by Timo Rose
- Barricade (2012 film), a 2012 thriller film directed by Andrew Currie
- Barricades (film), a 1972 documentary film by Ram Loevy
- Barricade, a board game also known as Malefiz, popular in German speaking countries
- Barricade (C.O.P.S.)
- Barricade gel, a fire-retardant gel that is mostly made of hydrogel
- Barricade (Transformers), a fictional character in the Transformers universe
- Barricade (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
- Barricade (video game), an overhead view maze arcade game released by RamTeK in 1976
- "Barricade" (song), a 2010 song by Interpol
- The Barricades, events that took place between 13 and 27 January 1991 in Latvia
- USS Barricade (ACM-3), a Chimo-class minelayer in the United States Navy during World War II
- Operation Barricade, a British Commando raid during the Second World War
- HMAS Barricade (P 98), an Attack class patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN)
- Barrycade, United States federal government shutdown of 2013 (derogatory)
Barricade is a 1950 American Western film directed by Peter Godfrey and written by William Sackheim. The film stars Dane Clark, Raymond Massey, Ruth Roman, Robert Douglas, Morgan Farley and Walter Coy. The film was released by Warner Bros. on March 18, 1950.
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.