9 letters · 14 points in Scrabble
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.
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