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stockade

Syllabification: (stock·ade)
Pronunciation: /stäˈkād/

Definition of stockade

noun

  • a barrier formed from upright wooden posts or stakes, especially as a defense against attack or as a means of confining animals.
  • an enclosure bound by a barrier formed from upright wooden posts:we got ashore and into the stockade
  • a military prison.

verb

[with object] (usually as adjective stockaded)
  • enclose (an area) by erecting a stockade.

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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