noun any fence made of pales or sharp stakes.
2. palisade ·vt to surround, inclose, or fortify, with palisades.
3. palisade ·add. ·noun a line of bold cliffs, ·esp. one showing basaltic columns;
usually in ·pl, and orig. used as the name of the cliffs on the west bank of the lower hudson.
4. palisade ·noun a strong, long stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other is sharpened; also, a fence formed of such stakes set in the ground as a means of defense.