from charasso (to sharpen to a point; akin to G1125 through the idea of scratching); a stake, i.e. (by implication) a palisade or rampart (military mound for circumvallation in a siege):--trench.
a pale or stake, a palisade
a palisade or rampart
pales between which earth, stones, trees, and timbers are heaped and packed together
