stockade
[sto-keyd]
- 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.
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- to protect, fortify, or encompass with a stockade.
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Origin of stockade
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Examples from the Web for stockade
Contemporary Examples
It was Korea, and I served three years—half of it in the stockade.
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November 26, 2014
Historical Examples
We then made a lodgment on the side of the mount near the stockade.
A Sketch of the Life of Brig. Gen. Francis MarionWilliam Dobein James
He said the men were rebuilding the stockade and getting in the harvest.
The Trail BookMary Austin
They saw that the brush had been cut from the ground outside the stockade, as if for battle.
The Trail BookMary Austin
With this they were to surmount the stockade and gain the open.
Captain BloodRafael Sabatini
That relation of his, Si-Lapa by name, was then with Doramin in the stockade only a few feet away.
Lord JimJoseph Conrad
stockade
- an enclosure or barrier of stakes and timbers
- US a military prison or detention area
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- (tr) to surround with a stockade
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Word Origin
C17: from Spanish estacada, from estaca a stake, post, of Germanic origin; see stake 1
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Word Origin and History for stockade
n.
1610s, "a barrier of stakes," from Spanish estacada, from estaca "stake," from a Germanic source (cf. Old English staca, see stake (n.1)). Meaning "prison, especially on a military post" first recorded 1865.
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