Words beginning graduate students don't know

[Baker, John]

I think many of us are more familiar with the meaning "a line of steep cliffs especially along a river or ocean" than with the meaning "a fence of stakes especially for defense," although the latter is the older meaning.  In my case, I think first of the Kentucky River Palisades.  Apparently the Hudson Palisades were the original.


John Baker



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Torbert is correct:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palisade

Geoffrey S. Nathan
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> I thought palisades were a bunch of vertical bis-ass logs. Correct me
> if
> I'm wrong.

> Torbert

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> > Postdoctorally, I resided at the Hoffleit house for a year or so in
> > Pacific
> > Palisades CA, so I think palisades must be cliffs. But I don't know
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