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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary bar·ri·cade \\ˈber-ə-ˌkād, ˈba-rə-, ˌber-ə-ˈ, ˌba-rə-ˈ\\ transitive verb ( -cad·ed ; -cad·ing) ETYMOLOGY barricade (II)
DATE 1592
1. to block off or stop up with a barricade barricade a street2. to prevent access to by means of a barricadenoun ETYMOLOGY French, from Middle French, from barriquer to barricade, from barrique barrel
DATE 1642
1. an obstruction or rampart thrown up across a way or passage to check the advance of the enemy2. barrier 3, obstacle 3. plural : a field of combat or dispute
barricade barricade ( v.) 1590s, from M.Fr
http://M.Fr . barricader "to barricade" (1550s), from barrique "barrel," from Sp. barrica "barrel," from baril (see barrel). Extended to "improvised rampart" in 1588 Huguenot riots in Paris, when large barrels filled with earth and stones were set up in the streets. The noun is attested from 1640s, earlier barricado (1580s).
Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of English Oxford Collocations dictionary for students of Englishbarricade
noun ADJ. human VERB + BARRICADE build, construct, erect, put up, set up | form The protesters formed a human barricade. | dismantle, remove, take down | smash, storm The army used tanks to storm the barricades. | man There were six miners manning the barricades. PREP. behind a/the ~ fighting from behind their barricades | over a/the ~ The two sides watched each other over the barricades. | ~ across a barricade across the main road | ~ against Students built a barricade against the police. | ~ of a barricade of wooden benches Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-牛津双解-OALD7 barricadebar·ri·cade / 7bAri5keid / noun a line of objects placed across a road, etc. to stop people from getting past 路障；街垒: The police stormed the barricades the demonstrators had put up. 警察冲破了示威者筑起的街垒。 verb[VN] to defend or block sth by building a barricade 设路障防护；阻挡: They barricaded all the doors and windows. 他们用障碍物堵住了所有的门窗。 PHRASAL VERBS ▪ barri7cade yourself 'in / in'side (sth) to build a barricade in front of you in order to prevent anyone from coming in 躲在…里: He had barricaded himself in his room. 他把自己关在房间里。
barricade noun
⇨ barrier
barricade verb
⇨ block 3 Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged bar·ri·cadeI. \ˈbarəˌkād, ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˈ ̷ ̷ also -er-\ transitive verb( -ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: Middle French barricader, from barricade1. : to block off or stop up (as a street or passage) with a barricade especially in order to prevent the advance of an enemy : blockade < angry workers barricaded the narrow streets with furniture, carriages, and piles of lumber >2. : to prevent access to by means of a barricade < barricaded myself behind my study door — Bentz Plagemann >II. noun( -s) Etymology: French, from Middle French, from barriquer to barricade, from barrique barrel (a typical component of barricades, from dialect — Gascon — barrico) + -ade; akin to Old French barril barrel 1. a. : an obstruction or rampart hastily improvised and thrown up across some way or passage (as in revolutionary street fighting) to check the advance of the enemy — usually used in plural < men, women, and children manned the barricades > b. : material barrier or obstacle that prevents passage < a man behind a floor-to-ceiling concrete barricade was looking through a glass porthole — Stanley Frank >2. : a nonmaterial barrier or protective shield < sat stiff as a poker behind his flimsy barricade of silence — Claud Cockburn > < guarded by … legal barricades — W.P.Webb >3. : a field of disagreement, dispute, or combat < would die upon the literary barricade of defending the noble proportions of “War and Peace” — Ellen Glasgow >
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