pallisade

The pallisade was made from mini Mars Bars welded round a pile of cakes stuck together with buttercream, then about a pint of melted chocolate poured over it.

Mair Cakes. Spinningfishwife 2007

The pallisade was made from mini Mars Bars welded round a pile of cakes stuck together with buttercream, then about a pint of melted chocolate poured over it.

Archive 2007-10-01 Spinningfishwife 2007

But before they left her, they erected a pallisade of timber round the grave, so that the beasts of the forest should not tear the body from its resting-place.

Tales of all countries 2004

In the bottom of this port is a small fortress which stands in a plain, and is a regular square with four small bastions, but it has neither outworks nor a ditch, it being only surrounded with a pallisade.

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 Various

Excellent roads were made, having on either side a foot-path, flower-border, and neat iron pallisade; handsome gateways erected; and a pier, botanic garden, and other attractive improvements commenced or projected.

Brannon's Picture of The Isle of Wight The Expeditious Traveller's Index to Its Prominent Beauties & Objects of Interest. Compiled Especially with Reference to Those Numerous Visitors Who Can Spare but Two or Three Days to Make the Tour of the Island. George Brannon

And lastly, a pallisade, high and regularly built, surrounded the summit of the hill.

Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century Jules Verne 1866

We have heard of a young lady, who entered the garden one of those summer days when straw bonnets had great bunches of ripe barley mingled with artificial poppies as an ornament, and, going too near the lofty pallisade, found to her confusion and terror that the long lithe tongue of the giraffe had whisked off her

Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. Adam White 1848

I noticed that the pallisade at one side of the palace was destitute of these horrible trophies: the cause of this was soon explained.

The Life and Adventures of Zamba, an African Negro King; and His Experience of Slavery in South Carolina. Written by Himself. Corrected and Arranged by Peter Neilson. 1847

There was a strong picket fence running round an open area, and round the inside of these, built in with the fort, were various houses or shantees -- some one story and some two; the latter having loop holes to shoot through, and commanding the approach to that side of the pallisade.

The Knights of the Horse-Shoe; A Traditionary Tale of the Cocked Hat Gentry in the Old Dominion. 1845

Another stage of the same kind commands the steep avenue from the beach, and stands also within the pallisade; on this side of the hill there are some little outworks and huts, not intended as advanced posts, but as the habitations of people who for want of room could not be accommodated within the works, but who were, notwithstanding, desirous of placing themselves under their protection.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 Robert Kerr 1784