Other forms: palisades
A palisade is a fence of strong pointed stakes. Build a palisade.
It was the quickest defence there was, since timber could be cut and set in a day. A palisade burns, which is why stone replaced it wherever anybody could afford to.
1nounpalisadeA fence of strong pointed stakes.
“The palisade round the camp went up in a single afternoon.”
palisade is a fence.
French palissade comes from Occitan palissa, a stake, from Latin palus.
Proto-Indo-European
*peh₂ǵ-
Latin
pālus — stake
Old Occitan
palissada
Middle French
palissade
English, today
palisade
Built from
Middle French palissade, from Old French -, from Old Occitan palissada, from palissa (“stake”), probably from pal (“stake”), or possibly from Gallo-Romance pālīcea, from Latin pālus (“stake”) ade.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA