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▪ I. barricade|bærɪˈkeɪd|
Also 8 barrocade.
[a. F. barricade, or assimilation of the earlier barricado to the F. form.]
1. An obstruction hastily erected across a path or street to stop an enemy's advance; = barricado 1.
1642S. Harcourt in Macm. Mag. XLV. 290 They had cast upp a travers or barricade. 1670Cotton Espernon i. ii. 72 All the world has heard of the Barricades of Paris. 1816Scott Old Mort. 182 They..forced the barricade, killing and wounding several of the defenders. 1850Tennyson In Mem. cxxvii, Tho' thrice again The red fool-fury of the Seine Should pile her barricades with dead.
2. transf. and fig. Any barrier blocking up or obstructing passage.
a1735Derham (J.) There must be such a barricade, as would greatly annoy or absolutely stop the currents of the atmosphere. 1742Middleton Cicero I. iii. 201 He had broken through that barricade of Nobility. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxxiii. (1856) 285 A uniform curve..abutted on each side by a barricade of rubbish.
3. Naut. = barricado 4.
1769Falconer Dict. Marine s.v. Abaft, The barricade stands abaft the main-mast. 1867in Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.
4. Comb., as barricade-work.
1867Times 29 Aug., The hands that were so ready at barricade-work have forgot their cunning.
▪ II. barriˈcade, v.
[f. prec., or a. F. barricade-r.]
1. trans. To block (a passage) with a barricade.
1592No-body & Some-b. (1878) 328 Man the Court gates, barricade al the streets. 1649Cromwell Lett. (Carl.) lxxx, Having burnt the gates, which our men barricaded up with stones. 1776C. Lee in Sparks Corr. Amer. Rev. I. 159 To barricade all the streets. 1875Bryce Holy Rom. Emp. xvi. 287 Frederick barricaded the bridge over the Tiber.
b. transf. and fig. To block, bar, obstruct, render impassable.
a1677Manton in Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. cxix. 77 The way is barricaded and shut up by our sins. 1714Gay Trivia iii. 30 And the mixt hurry barricades the Street. 1718J. Chamberlayne Relig. Philos. I. xiii. §16 To stop the Way..and barricade it against Flies. 1883Froude Short Stud. IV. ii. iv. 208 The folios in the library bore marks of having been used to barricade the windows.
2. To shut in or defend with or as with a barricade. lit. and fig.
1657Deuine Louer 98 Barricade mee with these Bulwarkes against myne enemyes. 1790Beatson Nav. & Mil. Mem. I. 310 The revolters barricaded themselves in some streets. 1802Paley Nat. Theol. viii. (1819) 102 To barricade the joint on both sides by a continuation of..the bone over it. 1885Standard 11 Apr. 4/8 The settlers are barricaded in the railway station. |