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
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