palisado

And first having felled trees, he therewith made a palisado about the town that none might go out.

Steep rocks and everlasting hills are their castles; the tangled, pathless thicket their palisado, and God is their ally.

The stranger was still speaking, when a small quivering flame played on the corners of the palisado nearest the burning pile.

"Enter," said the stranger, lowering the piece of the palisado for the passage of his companion.