palisade
/pal-uh-seyd/US // ˌpæl əˈseɪd //UK // (ˌpælɪˈseɪd) //
垛口,垛田,栅栏,垛口镇
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n.名词 noun
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- : a fence of pales or stakes set firmly in the ground, as for enclosure or defense.
- : any of a number of pales or stakes pointed at the top and set firmly in the ground in a close row with others to form a defense.
- : Botany. palisade parenchyma.
- : palisades, a line of cliffs.
v.有主动词 verb
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pal·i·sad·ed, pal·i·sad·ing.
- : to furnish or fortify with a palisade.
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Examples
“Usually what happens when you have a palisade, it’s a defensive work, and inside, you would have had the buildings and the structure,” she said.
Grendel means, originally, no more than a bar or rod, or a palisade or lattice-work made of such bars or rods.
Many of these round houses were built close together, and then surrounded by a palisade made of tree trunks.
The next type is found in the monastery of St. Bride, which was simply a circular palisade encircling a sacred fire.
It seems that the citadel of Athens had been formerly surrounded by a wooden palisade.
But what she saw in the cheerful June sky beyond the palisade made her body go clammy-cold with horror.
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