palisade

A fence of pales forming a defense barrier or fortification.

One of the pales of such a fence.

A line of lofty steep cliffs, usually along a river.

To equip or fortify with palisades or a palisade.

A fence made of strong pales or stakes set firmly in the ground, forming an inclosure, or used as a defense.

A stake, of which two or more were in former times carried by dragoons, intended to be planted in the ground for defense.

A wire sustaining the hair: a feature of the head-dress of the close of the seventeenth century.

plural

A precipice of trap-rock on the western bank of the Hudson river, extending from Fort Lee northward about fifteen miles. Its height is from 200 to 500 feet. The name is also used in various other localities for formations of a similar character.