stockade

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noun

stock·ade stä-ˈkād

Synonyms of stockade next

: a line of stout posts set firmly to form a defense

: an enclosure or pen made with posts and stakes

: an enclosure in which prisoners are kept

stockade

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verb

stockaded; stockading

transitive verb

: to fortify or surround with a stockade

Example Sentences

Noun prisoners of war confined in a stockade

Recent Examples on the Web

Noun

Crawmer said there is evidence the vertical posts that formed the security stockade weren't in the ground for very long and that they may have been dug up and reused after the camp was closed in 1783. —

CBS News, 28 Oct. 2022 During World War II, the Army’s 10th Mountain Division trained for mountain warfare at Camp Hale, a sprawling base with 245 barracks, parade grounds, a combat range, ski hills, a stockade, and more. —

Andrea Sachs, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Apr. 2023 Martin Callinan’s great-great-great-grandfather was an Irish miner who fought at the stockade. —

Damien Cave, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2023 Just don't throw me in the TV-reviewer stockade. —

Whitson Gordon, Wired, 6 Apr. 2021 Home as our own personal stockade. —

Jason Wilson, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2020 Caught doodling on guard duty and reprimanded, he was sent to the stockade when his age was discovered. —

Robert D. Mcfadden, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2022

Verb

Epstein spent 13 months in the Palm Beach County stockade during 2008-09 as part of a plea deal widely criticized as being too lenient. —

Skyler Swisher, sun-sentinel.com, 10 May 2021 See More

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