barricade
nounEtymology
The noun is borrowed from French barricade, or an assimilation of the earlier barricado to the French form. The verb is from the noun or French barricader.
- borrowed from barricader
- borrowed from barricade
Definitions
A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defence
An obstacle, barrier, or bulwark.
- Such a barricade as would greatly annoy, or absolutely stop, the currents of the atmosphere.
- Salah will ask himself forever how he did not score at least one goal here. He might have nightmares featuring the face of Courtois, such was the one-man barricade he formed.
A place of confrontation.
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Line of people standing behind or closest to the barricade in the pit section of a live…
Line of people standing behind or closest to the barricade in the pit section of a live music concert.
To close or block a road etc., as, or using, a barricade.
- I stood beside the sources of the Arveiron, which take their rise in a glacier, that with slow pace is advancing down from the summit of the hills, to barricade the valley.
To keep someone in (or out), using a blockade, especially ships in a port.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA