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‖ paˈlank, -ka
[a. F. palanque, It. palanca ‘a defence made of great poles or stakes’; so Pol. palanka, Rom. palanca, Turkish palanqah.
The med.L. forms palanga, phalanga (Du Cange, Körting) appear to be from Gr. ϕάλαγξ, ϕάλαγγα trunk, log, pole. The pal- forms may be influenced by L. pālus stake.]
A kind of fortified camp: see quot. 1853.
1691Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) II. 302 [They] hop'd..to make themselves masters of the suburb and palank on the other side the river. 1853Stocqueler Mil. Encycl., Palankas, a species of permanent intrenched camp, attached to Turkish frontier fortresses, in which the ramparts are reveted with large beams,..so as to form a strong palisade. |