Palissade Sturdy wooden fence usually built to enclose a site until a permanent stone wall could be constructed Often built on a raised earth bank to give further protection Sometimes these were built as an extra defence or as a temporary protection while a more permanent structure was being built
Many of the earthlodge villages of the Plains Village peoples, and later the Arikara and Mandan, were fortified by a deep ditch and a log stockade wall, also known as a palisade
A strong, long stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other is sharpened; also, a fence formed of such stakes set in the ground as a means of defense
{i} fence made from stakes, protective fence made from poles that are inserted into the ground; line of cliffs, row of bluffs
A palisade is a fence of wooden posts which are driven into the ground in order to protect people from attack
A fence constructed of a row of closely placed wooden stakes At Fort McHenry palisades were erected during the Civil War to enclose the gorge and the water battery
() From French palissade, from Old French, from Old Provençal palissada, from palissa (“stake”), from Gallo-Romance *pālīcea, from Latin pālus (“stake”).