palisades

• averts
• barrancas
• barrancos
• battles
• bluffs
• buffers
• bulwarks
• buttes
• cliffs
• conserves
• contends
• covers
• crags
• cuestas
• declivities
• defends
• drop-offs
• embankments
• escarpments
• fences
• fends
• fights
• forfends
• guards
• hogbacks
• keeps
• opposes
• pickets
• pitches
• precipices
• preserves
• prevents
• protects
• resists
• safeguards
• saves
• scarps
• scars
• screens
• secures
• shields
• tors
• walls
• wards
• wars
• withstands

• assails
• assaults
• attacks
• besets
• besieges
• bombards
• capitulates
• caves
• overruns
• storms
• submits
• yields

• noun
  1. A long, strong stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other sharpened.
  2. A wall of wooden stakes, used as a defensive barrier.
  3. A line of cliffs, especially one showing basaltic columns.
  4. An even row of cells. e.g.: palisade mesophyll cells.

• The river flowed between steep palisades, creating a breathtaking landscape.
• Visitors to the park marveled at the towering palisades that surrounded the canyon.
• The fort was strategically built atop a hill overlooking the palisades.
• Hiking trails wound their way through the dense forest and along the palisades.
• The ship navigated carefully through the narrow passage between the rocky palisades.

egises

sancta

sanctums

wards

walls

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