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|Definition=<span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">fence by a palisade, fortify</b>, Ἐλάτειαν <span class="bibl">Aeschin.3.140</span>; χ. καὶ ταφρεύειν πόλιν <span class="bibl">D.S.23.18</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Cleom.</span>20</span>; metaph., χ. τὸν πλοῦτον <span class="bibl">Philostr.<span class="title">VA</span>7.23</span>: c. dat. modi, τὸ στόμα ὀδοῦσι Herm. ap. Stob.1.49.69; τὼ πόδε σκύτεσιν <span class="bibl">Max.Tyr.36.2</span>:—Pass., <b class="b3">ὄστρακον κεχαρακωμένον ταῖς ἀκάνθαις</b>, of the echinus, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">PA</span>679b29</span>; metaph., μᾶζα κεχαρακωμένη ἀχύροις <span class="bibl">Antiph.226.1</span>: f.l. for [[ἐκαρώθη]] in <span class="bibl">Ant.Lib.12.4</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> abs., <b class="b3">χ. ἐπὶ Ἰερουσαλήμ</b> <b class="b2">raise a barricade</b> against it, <b class="b2">besiege</b> it, <span class="bibl">LXX<span class="title">Je.</span>39(32).2</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b2">prop vines with stakes</b>, [<b class="b3">ἄμπελον</b>] <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PCair.Zen.</span>229</span> (iii B. C.), cf. <span class="title">Gp.</span>5.27.1; βλαστόν <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PSI</span>6.624.14</span> (iii B. C.).</span>