stockade

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/ stɒˈkeɪd /

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noun

Fortification. a defensive barrier consisting of strong posts or timbers fixed upright in the ground.

an enclosure or pen made with posts and stakes.

U.S. Military. a prison for military personnel.

verb (used with object), stock·ad·ed, stock·ad·ing.

to protect, fortify, or encompass with a stockade.

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Origin of stockade

1605–15; <Middle French estocade, variant of estacade<Spanish estacada.See stake¹, -ade¹

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How to use stockade in a sentence

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It was Korea, and I served three years—half of it in the stockade.
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I lay against a corner of the stockade seat, listening to the wind whispering and to the ceaseless drip-drip of the trees.
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I returned alone to the stockade, and for a long time after that kept the fire blazing, and sat up smoking and thinking.
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"We should put a stockade of logs across the neck of land on that side," answered Champlain.
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A stockade half bars the river of Plouernel, and serves as a shelter for the barges of the seigneur.
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We had no form of shelter, and there was no stockade around the camp, only a guard and a dead-line.
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British Dictionary definitions for stockade

stockade

/ (stɒˈkeɪd) /

noun

an enclosure or barrier of stakes and timbers

US a military prison or detention area

verb

(tr) to surround with a stockade

Word Origin for stockade

C17: from Spanish estacada, from estaca a stake, post, of Germanic origin; see stake 1

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