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Palisading

Palisade \Pal`i*sade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Palisaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Palisading.] [Cf. F. palissader.] To surround, inclose, or fortify, with palisades.

Palisading

Palisading \Pal`i*sad"ing\, n. (Fort.) A row of palisades set in the ground.

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palisading

n. A row of palisades set in the ground. vb. (present participle of palisade English)

Usage examples of "palisading".

The pile driver was finishing the last of the palisading as if it had a brain of its own: haul the weight up, center it, drop it on the head of the wooden piling, and close off another yard of marshland.

The laws that prevent men like Uncle Ruthven from palisading marshes and covering them with concrete?

I heard Matelgar's voice, harsh and loud, promising reward to him who should bring in the outlaw, dead or alive, and presently saw him stand clear of the palisading, about a bowshot from me.

Early in the morning, they set about palisading it with logs, hewed in the nearby forest and snaked out by men and the five horses.

It is with difficulty kept out by palisading, for if there be a weak place in the wooden framework, the strong snout of the animal is sure to undermine and work a passage through.

Lydgate was only two yards off on the other side of some iron palisading, and turned round at the sudden sound of the sash, before she called to him.

There, on a meadow which was near to an adequate source of water, they ditched and mounded the outline of a castra in which to spend the night Early in the morning, they set about palisading it with logs, hewed in the nearby forest and snaked out by men and the five horses.