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barricado
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n.
an ice mass formed by pans drifting to shore and being subjected to showers of freezing spray, eventually becoming barricades between the land and the water.
See: ballacater
Quotations
1775
In helping his dog out of the water the barricados broke, whereby he fell in, and was near being drowned.
2n.
See quote.
See: barricade(def. 2)
Quotations
1770
On our arrival . . . some were immediately employed in making a hut or barracado with young pine trees.