Forms: 7 baricado, -acado, barricadoe, -ocado, 6– barricado. [f. prec. sb.]
1. trans. To close or block (a passage) with (or as with) a barricade. (Formerly often with up.)
1611. Coryat, Crudities, 16. Another … with … cart and horse barricadoed, and stopped the passage of the gate.
a. 1649. Drumm. of Hawth., Jas. V., Wks. (1711), 88. Barricado’d some lanes with carts and other impediments.
1682. Bunyan, Holy War, 117. They shut up Ear-gate, they barricado’d it up.
1755. Smollett, Quix., IV. 134. Barricado the streets with woolpacks!
1796. Morse, Amer. Geog., I. 139. Vast shoals of ice which barricadoed that part of the coast.
2. To fortify or defend (a place) with or as with barricades. Also fig.
1601. Shaks., All’s Well, I. i. 123. Man is enemie to virginitie, how may we barracado it against him?
1678. Teonge, Diary (1825), 260. Wee … baracado our quarter deck with an old cable, to keepe off small shott.
1836. Marryat, Midsh. Easy (1863), 221. The house was barricadoed as well as circumstances would permit.
1857. Fraser’s Mag., LVI. 276. The birds had not only barricadoed the nest, but the bush itself.
3. trans. and refl. To enclose (a person) with a barricade; to shut up, bar in securely. lit. and fig.
1598. E. Gilpin, Skial. (1878), 36. Be Barricadode in the peoples loue.
1633. T. Stafford, Pac. Hib., viii. (1821), 569. They barricadoed themselves with barrells of earth.
1652. L. S., People’s Liberty, xiii. 34. They are so baracadoed by the Law of God against all opposition.
1719. De Foe, Crusoe, 46. I barricado’d myself round with the chests.
1816. Scott, Old Mort. (1830–2), II. xxvi. 270. [They] barricadoed themselves in the centre of the city.
4. To shut up, debar, preclude from. lit. and fig.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. xii. 88. As if he meant to barricado them from flying.
1635. Brathwait, Arcad. Pr., II. 58. Which barrocadoed mine eare from inclining to any ones opinion but mine owne.
