BARRICADE, or BARRICADO, a military term
for a fence formed in haste with vessels, balkets of
earth, trees, pallisades, or the like, to preserve an ar-
my from the shot or assault of the enemy.—The most
usual materials for barricades consist of pales or stakes,
crooked
Barricade: crossed with batoons, and studded with iron at the feet, usually set up in passages or breaches.
Barricade, in naval architecture, a strong wooden rail, supported by flanchions, extending across the foremost part of the quarter-deck. In a vessel of war, the vacant spaces between the flanchions are commonly filled with rope-matts, cork, or pieces of old cable; and the upper part, which contains a double rope-netting above the rail, is studded with full hammocks to intercept the motion, and prevent the execution of small-shot in time of battle.