Examples of “palisade” in a Sentence

noun A fence of strong stakes or iron bars set upright in the ground, built as a defense or barrier.

• The settlement was ringed by a timber palisade twice the height of a man.
• Steel palisade fencing surrounds the substation.

noun A line of tall cliffs, especially ones with a striking vertical, column-like face along a river. Usually in the plural.

• The Palisades rise sheer above the west bank of the Hudson.

noun In botany, the layer of tall, closely packed cells just below the upper surface of a leaf where most photosynthesis happens. Usually palisade layer or palisade mesophyll.

• Chloroplasts are concentrated in the palisade layer near the light.