stockade
noun
a defensive barrier consisting of strong posts or timbers fixed upright in the ground.
stockaded
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past participleof stockade.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof stockade.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
stockadenouna defensive barrier consisting of strong posts or timbers fixed upright in the ground.
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
This market was closed by a portcullised door which permitted entrance through the stockaded wall, and was enclosed by a railed yard.
From The Story of Sitka The Historic Outpost of the Northwest Coast by Clarence Leroy Andrews
As the huts 114 opened inward, they had a stockaded place easy of defence.
From Explorers and Travellers by Adolphus W. Greely
