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Definition of stockade
1 : a line of stout posts set firmly to form a defense
2a : an enclosure or pen made with posts and stakesb : an enclosure in which prisoners are kept
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Examples of stockade in a Sentence
prisoners of war confined in a stockade
Recent Examples of stockade from the Web
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Despite federal warnings, a majority refused to leave—and in 1838, Cherokee people were rounded up, placed in camps and stockades, and rushed from their ancestral lands in Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama to what is now Oklahoma.
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Forts San Louis and San Carlos, at the upper and lower river corners of the city, were similar except that their walkways were covered, making them look something like frontier stockades.
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County Administrator Bertha Henry said the stockade is the only backup jail if overcrowding forces the county to seek more jail space.
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Origin and Etymology of stockade
Spanish estacada, from estaca stake, pale, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English staca stake
stockade
Definition of stockade
stockaded
;stockading
transitive verb
: to fortify or surround with a stockade
First Known Use of stockade
1677
STOCKADE Defined for English Language Learners
stockade
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: a line of tall posts that are set in the ground and used as a barrier to protect or defend a place
STOCKADE Defined for Kids
stockade
playDefinition of stockade for Students
1 : a line of strong posts set in the ground to form a defense
2 : an enclosure usually formed by posts pounded into the ground
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