Also 8 barrocade. [a. F. barricade, or assimilation of the earlier BARRICADO to the F. form.]
1. An obstruction hastily erected across a path or street to stop an enemy’s advance; = BARRICADO 1.
1642. S. Harcourt, in Macm. Mag., XLV. 290. They had cast upp a travers or barricade.
1670. Cotton, Espernon, I. II. 72. All the world has heard of the Barricades of Paris.
1816. Scott, Old Mort., 182. They … forced the barricade, killing and wounding several of the defenders.
1850. Tennyson, In Mem., cxxvii. Tho’ thrice again the red fool-fury of the Seine Should pile her barricades with dead.
2. transf. and fig. Any barrier blocking up or obstructing passage.
1713. Derham, Phys.-Theol., II. i. 42 (J.). There must be such a Barricade, as would greatly annoy, or rather absolutely stop the Currents of the Atmosphere.
1742. Middleton, Cicero, I. III. 201. He had broken through that barricade of Nobility.
1853. Kane, Grinnell Exp., xxxiii. (1856), 285. A uniform curve … abutted on each side by a barricade of rubbish.
3. Naut. = BARRICADO 4.
1769. Falconer, Dict. Marine, s.v. Abaft, The barricade stands abaft the main-mast.
1867. in Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk.
4. Comb., as barricade-work.
1867. Times, 29 Aug., 6/2. The hands that were so ready at barricade-work have forgot their cunning.
