pallisado

English

Noun

pallisado (plural pallisados or pallisadoes)

  1. Obsolete form of palisade.
    • 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Emperor of Lilliput, Attended by Several of the Nobility, Come to See the Author in His Confinement. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput), page 39:
      In the left there was a ſort of Engine, from the Back of which were extended twenty long Poles, reſembling the Paliſado's before your Majeſty's Court; wherewith we conjecture the Man-Mountain combs his Head, for we did not always trouble him with Queſtions, becauſe we found it a great Difficulty to make him underſtand us.

Verb

pallisado (third-person singular simple present pallisados or pallisadoes, present participle pallisadoing or pallisadoeing, simple past and past participle pallisadoed)

  1. Obsolete form of palisade.

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