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Definition of Barricade

1. Verb. Render unsuitable for passage. "Stop the busy road"

2. Noun. A barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc..

3. Verb. Prevent access to by barricading. "The street where the President lives is always barricaded"

4. Noun. A barrier (usually thrown up hastily) to impede the advance of an enemy. "They stormed the barricade"

5. Verb. Block off with barricades.

Definition of Barricade

1. n. A fortification, made in haste, of trees, earth, palisades, wagons, or anything that will obstruct the progress or attack of an enemy. It is usually an obstruction formed in streets to block an enemy's access.

2. v. t. To fortify or close with a barricade or with barricades; to stop up, as a passage; to obstruct; as, the workmen barricaded the streets of Paris.

Definition of Barricade

1. Noun. A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defence ¹

2. Noun. An obstacle, barrier, or bulwark. ¹

3. Noun. (figuratively in the plural) A place of confrontation. ¹

4. Verb. to close or block a road etc., using a barricade ¹

5. Verb. to keep someone in (or out), using a blockade, especially ships in a port ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Barricade

1. [v -DED, -DING, -DES]

Medical Definition of Barricade

1. 1. A fortification, made in haste, of trees, earth, palisades, wagons, or anything that will obstruct the progress or attack of an enemy. It is usually an obstruction formed in streets to block an enemy's access. 2. Any bar, obstruction, or means of defense. "Such a barricade as would greatly annoy, or absolutely stop, the currents of the atmosphere." (Derham) Origin: F. Barricade, fr. Sp. Barricada, orig. A barring up with casks; fr. Barrica cask, perh. Fr. LL. Barra bar. See Bar, and cf. Barrel. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Barricade

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Literary usage of Barricade

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1863)
"When the head of the column was within a few yards of the barricade, it was halted. For some moments there was silence. c;ule of ..."

2. China and the Allies by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1901)
"Reinforcements, led by Captain Myers, were despatched at once, and the American barricade was retaken at 10.10, the Chinese not having discovered that the ..."

3. Memoirs of Youth, Things Seen and Known 1847-1860: Things Seen and Known by Giovanni Visconti Venosta (1914)
"Don Cesare Ajroldi, and the barricade of S. Babila. — The third day. ... The barricade at the bridge had been destroyed by the Aus- trians, and part of it ..."

4. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal by William Chambers, Robert Chambers (1849)
"At the end of this street the people were firing over a barricade, at what or whom, the volumes of smoke prevented me seeing. ..."

5. The Communists of Paris, 1871: Types--physiognomies--characters by Bertall (1873)
"Unreflecting, and in her passion ignoring all peril, she clung to THE Barricade with a tenacity worthy a loftier Martyrdom. Nor possible Victory could come, ..."

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