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   stockade

   /stɒˈkeɪd/

   noun

   • 1. a barrier formed from upright wooden posts or stakes, especially as a defence against attack or as a means of confining animals: "they built stockades around their towns"
   • ▪ an enclosure bound by a stockade: "we got ashore and into the stockade"
   • ▪ a military prison: "he surrendered two weeks after escaping the stockade at the air force base"

   verb

   • 1. enclose (an area) by erecting a stockade: "they fortified themselves strongly and stockaded the city"

   Word Origin early 17th century: shortening of obsolete French estocade, alteration of estacade, from Spanish estacada, from the Germanic base of the noun stake1.

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   What does stockade mean?

   • A stockade is a wall of large wooden posts built around an area to keep out enemies or wild animals. ...the inner stockade. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers 1. 2. US Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers 1. 2. US 3. US 4.

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   What is a stockade in a sentence?

   • We had no form of shelter, and there was no stockade around the camp, only a guard and a dead-line. Stockade definition: a defensive barrier consisting of strong posts or timbers fixed upright in the ground.. See examples of STOCKADE used in a sentence.

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   What does estacade mean?

   • 1. a defensive barrier constructed from stakes or timbers driven upright into the ground one beside the other. 2. an enclosure, as a fort or pen, consisting of such barriers. 3. a prison for military personnel. 4. to protect, fortify, or encompass with a stockade. [1605–15; < Middle French estocade, variant of estacade < Sp estacada.

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   Why are stockades built?

   • Stockades are also built as a means of protection or defense. Fun fact: Did you know that one of the most famous stockades in America was the original Wall Street in New Amsterdam — that is, the protective wall of wooden stakes dug into the ground that separated the northernmost part of the Dutch settlement from Native American territory?

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   What was a stockade used for in the Battle of plouernel?

   • A stockade half bars the river of Plouernel, and serves as a shelter for the barges of the seigneur. We had no form of shelter, and there was no stockade around the camp, only a guard and a dead-line. Stockade definition: a defensive barrier consisting of strong posts or timbers fixed upright in the ground..

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   Do we live in the public stockade?

   • Our threshold for shame is so high now that we don't merely tolerate the public stockade; we essentially live in it. Two reconstructed walls of the stockade with posts (and a roadway) mark the 26-acre perimeter of the prison itself.

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     STOCKADE translate: empalizada, estacada, empalizada,...

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     STOCKADE translate: （防禦用的）柵欄，圍欄. Learn more in the Cambridge...

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   noun. 1. a barrier of stakes driven into the ground side by side, for defense against attack. 2. US. an enclosure, as a fort, made with such stakes. 3. US. an enclosure for military prisoners. verb transitive Word forms: stockˈaded or stockˈading. 4. to surround, protect, or fortify with a stockade.

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   The meaning of STOCKADE is a line of stout posts set firmly to form a defense. How to use stockade in a sentence.

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   1. a defensive barrier constructed from stakes or timbers driven upright into the ground one beside the other. 2. an enclosure, as a fort or pen, consisting of such barriers. 3. a prison for military personnel. v.t. 4. to protect, fortify, or encompass with a stockade.

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   A stockade is an enclosed pen used to herd cattle and other livestock. Stockades can also house people, in the sense of a penal camp. In both cases, the treatment tends to be on the rough side. Stockades are also built as a means of protection or defense.