pal i no dial (pal i no dial)

[ IMG:content-2178.png:[blocks in formation] 2. A stake, of which two or more were in former times carried by dragoons, intended to be planted in the ground for defense. They were 44 feet long, with forked iron heads. In the seventeenth century an attempt was made to combine a rest for the musket with the palisade. Also called swine - feather and Swedish feather. 3t. A wire sustaining the hair: a feature of the head-dre of the close of the seventeenth cenon the western bank of the Hudson river, extending from Fort Lee northward about fifteen miles. Its height is from 200 to 500 feet. The name is also used in various other localities for formations of a similar character. palisade (pal-i-sād'), v. t.; pret. and pp. pal i saded, ppr. palisading. [= F. pali ader; from