barricade, barricado

[In Sw. barrikad; Dut. & Ger. barrikade ; Dan. & Fr. barricade ; Sp. barricada ; Ital. barricata. From Fr. barrique Prov. barriqua ; Sp. & Port. barrica a cask; casks having apparently formed the original barricades.] A. Ordinary Language: 1. Lit. A hastily-formed rampart of casks, earth, trees, logs of wood, paving-stones, waggons, or other vehicles, designed to impede the advance of a suddenly declared foe. The word came into the language in the form barricado , but is now more frequently spoken and written barricade . "... No barricado for a belly." Shakesp.: Winter's Tale , 1. 2. "The acce was by a neck of land, between bet the sea on one part, and the harbour water, or inner sea, on the other; fortified clean over with a strong rampier and barricado ."- Bacon . ... to make the security still more complete by throwing a barricade acro the the stream..."- Macau lay: Hist . Eng . , chap. xii. 2. Fig .: Anything designed to prove an obstruction, or which actually proves such. "There must be such a barricade as would greatly annoy or absolutely stop the currents of the atmosphere."-Derham. war. B. Naval Architecture : A strong wooden rail supported by stanchions extending acro the fore-part of the quarter-deck in ships of The vacant spaces between the stanchions are usually filled with rope mats, corks, or pieces of old cable; and the upper part, which contains a double rope netting above the rail, is stuffed with hammocks, as a defence against small shot in a naval action. băr-ri-cāde, † băr-ri-ca-dō, v.t. [From barricade, s. (q.v.). In Ger. barikadeeren ; Fr. barricader.j 1. Lit .: To form a barricade, to throw up a hastily-constructed rampart of earth, trees, paving-stones, waggons, or other vehicles, with the view of obstructing the progre of an enemy; any barrier raised for a defence; an obstruction raised to keep a crowd from pre ing forward unduly, or to preserve a spot sacred from their intrusion. "All the great avenues were barricaded."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. 10. Like the substantive, this also first entered the English language in the form barri cado . "Fast we found, fast shut, The dismal gates, and barricadoed strong." Milton: P. L., bk. viii. 2. Fig .: To obstruct in any way by means of physical obstacles. "A new volcano continually discharging that matter, wh which, being till then barricaded up and imprisoned in the bowels of the earth, was the occasion of very great and frequent calamities."-Woodward. băr-ri-cā'-děd, băr-ri-cā'-dõed, pa. par. & a. [BARRICADE, v.]