1
: a line of stout posts set firmly to form a defense
2
a
: an enclosure or pen made with posts and stakes
b
: an enclosure in which prisoners are kept
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Noun
prisoners of war confined in a stockade
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Joe Yogerst, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025
During the Civil War, a deadline was a line of demarcation around the inner stockade of a prison camp, generally about 17 feet.
—Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 June 2025
Skyler Swisher, sun-sentinel.com, 10 May 2021
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Noun
Fort Massac on the Ohio River waterfront is a faithful reconstruction of an 1802 American fort built on the site of a French stockade erected in 1757 to safeguard the region from British invasion during the French & Indian War.
—Joe Yogerst, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025
During the Civil War, a deadline was a line of demarcation around the inner stockade of a prison camp, generally about 17 feet.
—Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 June 2025
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
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“Stockade.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stockade. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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stockade
1 of 2 noun
stock·ade
stä-ˈkād 
1
: a line of stout posts set firmly to form a defense
2
a
: an enclosure or pen made with posts and stakes
b
: an enclosure in which prisoners are kept
stockade
2 of 2 verb
stockaded; stockading
: to protect or surround with a stockade
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