I. ˈbarəˌkād, ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˈ ̷ ̷ also -er- transitive verb
( -ed/-ing/-s )
Etymology: Middle French barricader, from barricade
1. : to block off or stop up (as a street or passage) with a barricade especially in order to prevent the advance of an enemy : blockade
angry workers barricaded the narrow streets with furniture, carriages, and piles of lumber
2. : to prevent access to by means of a barricade
barricaded myself behind my study door — Bentz Plagemann
II. noun
( -s )
Etymology: French, from Middle French, from barriquer to barricade, from barrique barrel (a typical component of barricades, from dialect — Gascon — barrico ) + -ade; akin to Old French barril barrel
1.
a. : an obstruction or rampart hastily improvised and thrown up across some way or passage (as in revolutionary street fighting) to check the advance of the enemy — usually used in plural
men, women, and children manned the barricades
b. : material barrier or obstacle that prevents passage
a man behind a floor-to-ceiling concrete barricade was looking through a glass porthole — Stanley Frank
2. : a nonmaterial barrier or protective shield
sat stiff as a poker behind his flimsy barricade of silence — Claud Cockburn
guarded by … legal barricades — W.P.Webb
3. : a field of disagreement, dispute, or combat
would die upon the literary barricade of defending the noble proportions of “War and Peace” — Ellen Glasgow