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a fence with attitude — sharpened logs that turned dirt into a fortress overnight.
means A defensive fence or wall made of tall, pointed wooden stakes driven into the ground, used to enclose and protect a position.
from From French 'palissade,' built on Latin 'palus' meaning a stake or post — the same root that gives us 'pale' (as in 'beyond the pale,' the boundary marked by stakes) and 'impale.' The image is literal: a row of pales, sharpened and planted, turning a line in the dirt into a wall of points.
- word root
- from Latin palus, meaning stake or pole
- speed build
- raised fast from felled trees on-site
- natural version
- steep basalt cliffs called palisades worldwide
- Roman tactic
- legions carried sharpened stakes for instant camp walls
- weak point
- wood rots, burns, and loses to cannon
palisade state park — park in montana with dramatic 1,000-foot basalt cliffs along the clark fork river
palisades interstate park — 3,000-acre park spanning new jersey and new york along the hudson river with 300-foot cliffs
palisades of the hudson — the actual geological formation of columnar basalt cliffs stretching 15 miles north of new york city