estacade

French estacade; compare Italian steccata, Spanish estacada, and English stake.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛstəkeɪd/

estacade (plural estacades)

1. (military) A dyke of piles in the sea, a river, etc., to hinder the approach of an enemy.
2. a type of pier or jetty

• “estacade”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• caseated

From Middle French estacade, estaquade, enstacatte, from Italian steccata, ultimately of Germanic origin, from Frankish *stakkō or Frankish *stikkō.

• IPA^(key): /ɛs.ta.kad/

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estacade f (plural estacades)

1. estacade
2. wooden pile bridge

• Littré, Émile (1873–1878), “estacade”, in Dictionnaire de la langue française, Paris: L. Hachette
• “estacade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012