barricado, a military term for a fence formed in haste with vessels, baskets of earth, trees, pallisades, or the like, to preserve an army from the shot or assault of the enemy.—The most usual materials for barricades consist of pales or stakes, crossed with battlements, and fixed with iron at the feet; usually set up in palisades or breaches.

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 stuffed with full hammocks to intercept the motion, and prevent the execution of small-shot in time of battle.