Meanings of strong palisade in English

It is well protected by a tall and strong palisade of three-inch timber.

Then the Indians withdrew to the strong palisade, behind which Lantaro awaited the foe.

On the inner side of the moat a strong palisade of timber completed the defence.

Here, in that spring of 1607, within the strong palisade, the settlers built their first cabins.

The village was not only filled with an immense force of French, but was protected by a strong palisade.

The searchers found not a man of the colony; their houses were taken down, and a strong palisade had been built.

The field was prepared, then surrounded with a strong palisade, high and pointed, which quadrupeds would have found difficulty in leaping.

They went faster than ever, and soon they saw rising in the moonlight the strong palisade and the stout log houses within it.

A lookout tower at this corner and, extending around north and south, a strong palisade-thatwith vigilant sentries would ensure against attack except by water.

As it was, its steep sides and strong palisades forbade any attempt to storm.

His countenance fell when he saw the strong palisades and the number of armed men by whom he was surrounded.

An outer fortification, consisting of a ditch, with strong palisades embedded in masonry, surrounded the factory and all the houses of the establishment.

And they wondered at that mighty city, with its roofs of burnished brass, and long and lofty walls of marble, with strong palisades above.