·noun Any fence made of pales or sharp stakes.
II. Palisade ·vt To surround, inclose, or fortify, with palisades.
III. Palisade ·add. ·noun A line of bold cliffs, ·esp. one showing basaltic columns;
— usually in ·pl, and orig. used as the name of the cliffs on the west bank of the lower Hudson.
IV. Palisade ·noun 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.