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stockade

Pronunciation: /stɒˈkeɪd/

Definition of stockade

noun

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
chiefly North American a military prison: he surrendered two weeks after escaping the stockade at the air force base

verb

[with object] (usually as adjective stockaded)

enclose (an area) by erecting a stockade: stockaded enclosures stockaded village settlements

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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