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blockade verb To obstruct, block.
1937 Hall Coll (Mingus Creek NC) They’ve got me blockaded. [a complaint of Debbie Mathis because the Park engineers blocked her use of the road in order to install new water pipes. She couldn’t get to the milk gap to milk her cows]. 1939 Hall Coll (Cataloochee NC) If he’d have shot the old’un [=the mother bear] as she come out, why she’d just have blockaded the hole.