palisado

Your palisado is a pretty sort of bodkin, about the thickness of my leg.

Steep rocks and everlasting hills are their castles; the tangled, pathless thicket their palisado, and God is their ally.

"Enter," said the stranger, lowering the piece of the palisado for the passage of his companion.

And first having felled trees, he therewith made a palisado about the town that none might go out.

The stranger was still speaking, when a small quivering flame played on the corners of the palisado nearest the burning pile.