to keep someone in (or out), using a blockade, especially ships in a port
to close or block a road etc., using a barricade
A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defence
An obstacle, barrier, or bulwark.
A place of confrontation.
To confine in a cloister, voluntarily or not.
To become a Roman Catholic religious.
To deliberately withdraw from worldly things.
To provide with a cloister or cloisters.
To protect or isolate.
such an arcade in a monastery;
A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.
The monastic life.
such an arcade fitted with representations of the stages of Christ's Passion.