Fascine vs Palisade - What's the difference?
fascine | palisade |
(fortification) A cylindrical bundle of small sticks of wood, bound together, used in raising batteries]], filling ditches, strengthening ramparts, and making parapets; also in revetments for river banks, and in mats for dams, [[jetty, jetties, etc.
* 1786 , Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page 51.:
A long, strong stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other sharpened.
A wall of wooden stakes, used as a defensive barrier
A line of cliffs
(biology) An even row of cells. e.g.: palisade mesophyll cells.
(usually in the passive) To equip with a palisade.
As nouns the difference between fascine and palisade
is that fascine is a cylindrical bundle of small sticks of wood, bound together, used in raising batteries, filling ditches, strengthening ramparts, and making parapets; also in revetments for river banks, and in mats for dams, jetties, etc while palisade is a long, strong stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other sharpened.As a verb palisade is
to equip with a palisade.fascine
English
Noun
(en noun)- Halberts differ very little from the bill, being like them constructed both for pushing and cutting: a halbert consists of three parts, the spear, or sometimes a kind of sword blade for pushing, an ax, or hatchet for striking and cutting, and a flook or hook for pulling down fascines, in the attack of trenches, or temporary fortifications.