Barricade
[,bærɪ'keɪd] or ['bærɪ'ked]
Definition
(noun.) a barrier (usually thrown up hastily) to impede the advance of an enemy; 'they stormed the barricade'.
(verb.) block off with barricades.
(verb.) prevent access to by barricading; 'The street where the President lives is always barricaded'.
(verb.) render unsuitable for passage; 'block the way'; 'barricade the streets'; 'stop the busy road'.
Inputed by Liza--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) Any bar, obstruction, or means of defense.
(n.) 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.
Inputed by Jarvis
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Obstruction (as in the streets of a city to serve as a fortification), BARRIER.
v. a. Obstruct, block up, stop up.
Edited by Julius
Definition
n. a temporary fortification raised to hinder the advance of an enemy as in the street fights of Parisian insurrections.—v.t. to obstruct: to fortify.—Earlier form Barricā′do.
Checker: Mortimer
Examples
- Hand-to-hand again, said Dick, as the Melnosians began to use their bayonets, but they won't get over the barricade this time. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- They are going to fire the barricade! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Why, I set my men to work, to build up the barricade again, with turf and bags of sand. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- At this moment, the barricade fell down with a crash, amid a sudden shower of sparks and rolling vapors. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The pillow was gone, but there was a barricade, nevertheless, a natural one, raised by time, absence, and change of heart. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- When Jane and Esmeralda found themselves safely behind the cabin door the Negress's first thought was to barricade the portal from the inside. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- It made a barricade in that corner of the room. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- No more barricades of flagstones--no more assaulting his Majesty's troops with cobbles. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But they will build no more barricades, they will break no more soldiers' heads with paving-stones. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The bridge was barricaded. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We were barricaded at the lower bend of the post. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Perhaps they barricaded the cave mouths. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They meet the evils of dance halls by barricading them; they go forth to battle against vice by raiding brothels and fining prostitutes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Edited by Cathryn