[f. prec., or a. F. barricade-r.]
1. trans. To block (a passage) with a barricade.
1592. No-body & Some-b. (1878), 323. Man the Court gates, barricade al the streets.
1649. Cromwell, Lett. (Carl.), lxxx. Having burnt the gates, which our men barricaded up with stones.
1776. C. Lee, in Sparks, Corr. Amer. Rev., I. 159. To barricade all the streets.
1875. Bryce, Holy Rom. Emp., xvi. 287. Frederick barricaded the bridge over the Tiber.
b. transf. and fig. To block, bar, obstruct, render impassable.
a. 1677. Manton, in Spurgeon, Treas. Dav., Ps. cxix. 77. The way is barricaded and shut up by our sins.
1714. Gay, Trivia, III. 30. And the mixt hurry barricades the Street.
1718. J. Chamberlayne, Relig. Philos., I. xiii. § 16. To stop the Way … and barricade it against Flies.
1883. Froude, Short Stud., IV. II. iv. 208. The folios in the library bore marks of having been used to barricade the windows.
2. To shut in or defend with or as with a barricade. lit. and fig.
1657. Deuine Louer, 98. Barricade mee with these Bulwarkes against myne enemyes.
1790. Beatson, Nav. & Mil. Mem., I. 310. The revolters barricaded themselves in some streets.
1802. Paley, Nat. Theol., viii. (1819), 102. To barricade the joint on both sides by a continuation of … the bone over it.
1885. Standard, 11 April, 4/8. The settlers are barricaded in the railway station.
