Words beginning graduate students don't know

[Benjamin Barrett]

Those pictures are worth a thousand words! Wiktionary's first definition (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/palisade) is basically a long stake in the ground and pointed at the top. I was not getting it!

On Oct 11, 2013, at 2:41 AM, Geoffrey Steven Nathan <geoffnathan at WAYNE.EDU> wrote:

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> Torbert is correct:
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palisade
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>> From: "Benjamin Torbert" <btorbert at GMAIL.COM>
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>> I thought palisades were a bunch of vertical bis-ass logs. Correct me
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>> I'm wrong.
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>> Torbert
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>> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 11:29 PM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com>
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>>> Postdoctorally, I resided at the Hoffleit house for a year or so in
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>>> Palisades CA, so I think palisades must be cliffs. But I don't know
>>> the
>>> last word in the list. What's a <geoff>?

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