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v. - Block off with equipment.

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Usage examples (28)
  • Leontes goes on to lament that he has 'no barricado for a belly', which will 'let in and out the enemy/With bag and baggage'.
  • Confounded by a thousand ideas which arose in my mind in an instant, I sprang upon the barricado and plainly descried two ships of considerable size, standing in for the...
  • One of the escort alighted, and, having struck upon the bars, a folding door within was immediately opened, and a man bearing a torch appeared behind the barricado,...
  • For, you having so long time solicited me, one while with affable language, then againe with tokens and entisements, of such prevailing power: as have broken the verie...
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