palisade

noun

1. a fence of pales or stakes set firmly in the ground, as for enclosure or defense.
2. any of a number of pales or stakes pointed at the top and set firmly in the ground in a close row with others to form a defense.
3. Botany. palisade parenchyma.
4. palisades, a line of cliffs.

verb (used with object), pal·i·sad·ed, pal·i·sad·ing.

5. to furnish or fortify with a palisade.

noun

1. a strong fence made of stakes driven into the ground, esp for defence
2. one of the stakes used in such a fence
3. botany a layer of elongated mesophyll cells containing many chloroplasts, situated below the outer epidermis of a leaf blade

verb

4. (tr) to enclose with a palisade

n.“a fence of stakes,” c.1600, from Middle French palissade (15c.), from Provençal palissada, from palissa “a stake or paling,” from Gallo-Romance *palicea, from Latin palus “stake” (see pale (n.)). Military sense is attested from 1690s. The Palisades, along the Hudson River opposite New York City, so called by 1823.