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I lingered until Michaela stockaded me in upturned chairs and dragged back to the flat.

From The Verge • Mar. 31, 2018

Show me round your little kingdom, Sergeant Crusoe," ordered the captain, "the stockaded hut and the wheat patch and the goat pen, and so on.

From Time Magazine Archive

The bustling scene of the stockaded fur-trading post at Fort Laramie was painted by Alfred Jacob Miller in 1837, when the Rocky Mountain fur trade had already passed its peak.

From Time Magazine Archive

As the huts 114 opened inward, they had a stockaded place easy of defence.

From Explorers and Travellers by Greely, Adolphus W.

Lee arrived with his legion, having failed before Augusta, and invested a stockaded fort which formed part of the works.

From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Irving, Washington