palisade
n.
"a fence of stakes," c.1600, from Middle French palissade (15c.), from Provençal palissada, from palissa "a stake or paling," from Gallo-Roman *palicea, from Latin palus "stake" (see pale, n.). Military sense is attested from 1690s. The Palisades, along the Hudson River opposite New York City, so called by 1823.