χαρακόω

English (LSJ)

   A fence by a palisade, fortify, Ἐλάτειαν Aeschin.3.140; χ. καὶ ταφρεύειν πόλιν D.S.23.18, cf. Plu.Cleom.20; metaph., χ. τὸν πλοῦτον Philostr.VA7.23: c. dat. modi, τὸ στόμα ὀδοῦσι Herm. ap. Stob.1.49.69; τὼ πόδε σκύτεσιν Max.Tyr.36.2:—Pass., ὄστρακον κεχαρακωμένον ταῖς ἀκάνθαις, of the echinus, Arist.PA679b29; metaph., μᾶζα κεχαρακωμένη ἀχύροις Antiph.226.1: f.l. for ἐκαρώθη in Ant.Lib.12.4.    2 abs., χ. ἐπὶ Ἰερουσαλήμ raise a barricade against it, besiege it, LXXJe.39(32).2.    II prop vines with stakes, [ἄμπελον] PCair.Zen.229 (iii B. C.), cf. Gp.5.27.1; βλαστόν PSI6.624.14 (iii B. C.).