Barricade
Definition of Barricade
Bar`ri`cade´ | n. | 1. | | | 1. | (Mil.) A fortification, made in haste, of trees, earth, palisades, wagons, or anything that will obstruct the progress or attack of an enemy. It is usually an obstruction formed in streets to block an enemy's access. | | 2. | Any bar, obstruction, or means of defense. | | v. t. | 1. | To fortify or close with a barricade or with barricades; to stop up, as a passage; to obstruct; as, the workmen barricaded the streets of Paris. |
Related Words
abatis, advanced work, arm, armor, armor-plate, balistraria, bang, bank, banquette, bar, barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barrier, bartizan, bastion, batten, batten down, battle, battlement, blank wall, block, block up, blockade, bolt, breastwork, bulwark, button, button up, casemate, castellate, cheval-de-frise, chock, choke, choke off, circumvallation, clap, close, close off, close tight, close up, constrict, contain, contract, contravallation, counterscarp, cover, crenellate, crowd, curtain, debar, demibastion, dig in, dike, dog, drawbridge, earthwork, embattle, enclosure, entanglement, entrench, escarp, escarpment, fasten, fieldwork, fold, fold up, fortalice, fortify, garrison, glacis, jam, key, latch, lock, lock out, lock up, loophole, lunette, machicolation, man, man the garrison, mantelet, merlon, mine, mound, obstruct, occlude, outwork, pack, padlock, palisade, parados, parapet, plumb, portcullis, postern gate, rampart, ravelin, redan, redoubt, roadblock, sally port, scarp, sconce, seal, seal off, seal up, secure, shut, shut off, shut out, shut the door, shut tight, shut up, slam, snap, squeeze, squeeze shut, stifle, stockade, stop, stop up, strangle, strangulate, suffocate, tenaille, vallation, vallum, wall, work, zip up, zipper
|
Browse
Barrel drain
Barrel of a boiler
Barrel of the ear
Barrel organ
Barrel process
Barrel vault
Barreled
barrelfish
barrelful
barrelhouse
Barren
Barren flower
Barren Ground bear
Barren Ground caribou
Barren Grounds
Barrenly
Barrenness
Barrenwort
Barret
barretter
-Barricade-
Barricader
Barricado
Barrier
Barrier gate
Barrier reef
Barrigudo
barring
Barringout
Barrio
Barrister
Barroom
Barrow
Barrowist
Barrulet
Barruly
Barry
Bars gemel
Barse
Bart.
Bartender
|