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χα^ρα^κόω ,
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.).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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