stockading
- present participle of stockade.
Example Sentences
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He had wasted no time stockading huts or seeding patches.
From Time Magazine Archive
Twenty-four machines, captured from the Saracens by St. Lewis in his first partial success on the Nile, afforded material for stockading his whole camp.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Yule, Henry
The night was very dark, and the wind howled and sang through the stockading, and none seemed to be about the place.
From Wulfric the Weapon Thane by Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)
The red flames gathered brightness every moment, lighting up two sides of the stockading, in the midst of which the hall stood.
From A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex by Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)
Even the women had been compelled to labour in the work of stockading, and the sufferings of all had been terrible.
From On the Irrawaddy A Story of the First Burmese War by Overend, William Heysham
