Unscramble

b 3 a 1 r 1 r 1 i 1 c 3 a 1 d 2 o 1

9 letters · 14 points in Scrabble

Meaning

verb block off with barricades

originThe noun is from French barricade, from barrique (“cask”) + -ade (“group”); or Spanish barricada, from barrica (“cask”) + -ada (“group”). So named after the first street barricades in Paris, which were composed of casks filled with earth, paving stones, etc. The verb is from the noun.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0

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