“barricado”的英英意思

单词 barricado
释义 I. barricado, n.|bærɪˈkeɪdəʊ|
Forms: 6–7 barracado, baricado, (7 baracadowe, 8 barricadoe), 6– barricado. pl. -oes, -os.
[ad. F. barricade or Sp. barricada (see -ado), f. F. barrique or Sp. barrica a cask, the first street barricades in Paris being composed of casks filled with earth, paving stones, etc. (Littré: cf. quots. 1590–98, 1602, 1743). Now usually barricade in ordinary prose.]
1. A hastily formed rampart of barrels, wagons, timber, stones, household furniture, or any other materials readily available, thrown up to obstruct the advance of an enemy.
1590Foxe's A. & M. (1684) III. 934 Soon after the day of the Barricadoes [la journée des barricades, in Paris, 1588] the Judges of Chastellat adjudged them to be hanged.1598Florio, Baricata, Barricada, a baricado or fortification with barels, timber and earth.1602Warner Alb. Eng. x. lviii. 257 Till the Barricados Feast, when Guize vn-vizard was.1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 160 He fortified himselfe, not with barres and barricadoes.1627Sir R. Cotton in Rushworth Hist. Coll. I. 467 To block them up by Land, and..to make a Barracado cross the Channel.1670Cotton Espernon iii. xi. 541 Making great Barricado's upon all the Avenues.1743Tindal Rapin's Hist. Eng. xvii. (1757) VII. 513 The barricadoes of Paris (note, What occasioned this name was, that the streets were blocked with Barriques, i.e. Hogsheads).1854J. Stephens Centr. Amer. (1854) 252 A barricado constructed with trunks of trees.
2. transf. and fig. Any barrier or obstruction to passage.
1611Shakes. Wint. T. i. ii. 204 No Barricado for a Belly.1656Hobbes Liberty, etc. (1841) 394 As if the needle..were free to point either towards the north or towards the south, because there is not a barricado in its way to hinder it.1693Luttrell Brief Rel. III. 156 Many were drowned in the river, which proved a barricado to the French.
3. A natural frontier or boundary line. Obs.
1644Milton Jus Pop. 50 Few Nations have prospered when their pride had transported them beyond their native Barricado's.
4. Naut.; see quots. Now usually barricade.
1675H. Teonge Diary (1825) 52 Wee are fortifying our longe-boate with baracadowes.1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1789), Barricadoe, a strong wooden rail, supported by..stanchions, and extending, as a fence, across the foremost part of the quarter-deck.1804Nelson in Nicolas Disp. (1846) VI. 282 If her barricado could be nearly all taken away she would be much better for the service.
II. barricado, v.|bærɪˈkeɪdəʊ|
Forms: 7 baricado, -acado, barricadoe, -ocado, 6– barricado.
[f. prec. n.]
1. trans. To close or block (a passage) with (or as with) a barricade. (Formerly often with up.)
1611Coryat Crudities 16 Another..with..cart and horse barricadoed, and stopped the passage of the gate.a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Jas. V Wks. (1711) 88 Barricado'd some lanes with carts and other impediments.1682Bunyan Holy War 117 They shut up Ear-gate, they barricado'd it up.1755Smollett Quix. IV. 134 Barricado the streets with woolpacks!1796Morse 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.
1601Shakes. All's Well i. i. 123 Man is enemie to virginitie, how may we barracado it against him?1678H. Teonge Diary (1825) 260 Wee..baracado our quarter deck with an old cable, to keepe off small shott.1836Marryat Midsh. Easy (1863) 221 The house was barricadoed as well as circumstances would permit.1857Fraser'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.
1598E. Guilpin Skial. (1878) 36 Be Barricadode in the peoples loue.1633T. Stafford Pac. Hib. viii. (1821) 569 They barricadoed themselves with barrells of earth.1652L. S. People's Liberty xiii. 34 They are so baracadoed by the Law of God against all opposition.1719De Foe Crusoe 46, I barricado'd myself round with the chests.1816Scott 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.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xii. 88 As if he meant to barricado them from flying.1635R. Brathwait Arcad. Pr. ii. 58 Which barrocadoed mine eare from inclining to any ones opinion but mine owne.

 

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