What is "barricaded"

Usage examples of "barricaded".

Their main force had been barricaded on the road and now, from the Spaniard’s left flank, a company of Dragoons was lined for the charge.

If there was no escape, then the farmhouse must be barricaded into a fortress.

The French were still barricaded inside the vast and elegant building from which, whenever a Spaniard dared show himself in the plaza, a thunder of musketry crashed out.

The flag was gone from above the double door which had been barricaded by planks supported by timber buttresses.

He had barricaded the little passage of the Rue Mondétour, which till then had been open.

This house was barricaded, and, as it were, walled in from top to bottom.

The main road itself was clear of obstructions, though we saw that every side-road and one or two of the subsidiary main-roads that crossed it at intervals were barricaded and manned by armed civilians.

It was probably prejudice which prompted the majority of us to assume it was the Afrims, but it had been our experience that this was the kind of action they would take against small settlements that they found barricaded.

I was able to avoid unwanted encounters with military forces, and found that my treatment at barricaded villages or defended houses was easier than if I had been with a group.

The troops couldn't use disrupters much for fear of hitting their own people, but the few townspeople with energy weapons barricaded themselves in their houses and sniped desperately from shuttered windows.

He hovered over Julian for a moment, distraught at the sight of a human bleeding and in distress, and then he grabbed an iron poker from beside the fireplace, and stood before the barricaded door, determined that no one would pass while he still had strength in his bony arms.

The Family would be on the next floor down, no doubt barricaded in, and surrounded by a small army of protectors.

One doorway was barricaded with a child's cot while another had a pair of benches as a firestep.

The surviving Highlanders barricaded themselves in houses bordering the stream, but the French poured fire at windows, loopholes and doors, then brought up galloper guns to fire across the stream until at last, with all their officers killed or wounded, the dazed Highlanders surrendered.

The few shops were so boarded and barricaded that it was impossible to tell what they sold.