Upon those first scattered plantations, a characteristic feature was such a strong-house or "block-house" surrounded by a stockade or "palisado" of logs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Virginia: the Old Dominion] Reference

Some strong houses were always surrounded by a stockade, or "palisado," of heavy, well-fitted logs, which thus formed a garrison, or neighborhood resort, in time of danger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home Life in Colonial Days] Reference

He hardly dares step outside the palisado, for fear some envoy of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims] Reference

"Enter," said the stranger, lowering the piece of the palisado for the passage of his companion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish] Reference

The stranger was still speaking, when a small quivering flame played on the corners of the palisado nearest the burning pile.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish] Reference

For he brought abundance of corn into the city, and he strengthened the walls by raising towers, and making strong ditches and palisado-work in front of the city.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plutarch's Lives Volume III.] Reference

Such a prize came very opportunely, for the castle stores were running out, while the ship's crew proved useful in the bitter work of earth carrying then going on daily on the ramparts for the repairing of the palisado.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.] Reference

To the people of Utica who were able to bear arms he assigned the palisado-work as their quarter, and made them give up their arms to him; but he kept the rest in the city, and took great care that they should not be wronged and should suffer no harm from the Romans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plutarch's Lives Volume III.] Reference

As for that part which I had planted, the trees were grown as thick as a man's thigh, and among them they had placed so many other short ones, and so thick, that it stood like a palisado a quarter of a mile thick, and it was next to impossible to penetrate it, for a little dog could hardly get between the trees, they stood so close.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe] Reference

He goes on to state that he would have sent two small pinnaces to the northward, to have discovered the bay he speaks of, while he, with all the small boats and two hundred men, would have gone up the Chowanook with the guides, whom he would have kept in manacles, to the head of the river, where he would have left his boats, and raised a small trench with a palisado on it, and left thirty men to guard the boats and stores.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

I fain would find some work further agate than yon palisado. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims] Reference

But never burnt child dreaded fire as he now doth the outside of the palisado. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims] Reference

"Hist, father!" said the quick-eyed and observant Mark; "one remaineth on the palisado nearest the wicket.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish] Reference

With a piece or two properly mounted on that fair height, and a palisado cutting off the headland from the main, it would fall into as pretty a little fortalice as could be asked. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims] Reference

Dash'd o'er the palisado, and next moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works] Reference

While the latter, aided by the little light that fell from the heavens, was endeavoring to make the most of his eyes, Submission applied the instrument to a lock that was artfully sunk in one of the timbers, at the height of a man's breast from the ground; and giving a couple of vigorous turns, a piece of the palisado, some half a fathom long, yielded on a powerful hinge below, and, falling, made an opening sufficiently large for the passage of a human body.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish] Reference