stockade
IPA: stˈɑkeɪd
noun
- (military) An enclosure protected by a wall of wooden posts.
- (colloquial) A military prison.
verb
- (transitive) To enclose in a stockade.
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Examples of "stockade" in Sentences
- People live within stockade.
- In 1972 scholars reproduced part of the stockade.
- At the start of the game, Jim had just escaped the stockade.
- Many of the leaders at the Eureka Stockade were Chartist members.
- During the 1970s reconstruction, much of the stockade was replaced.
- That evening the British abandon the stockade and return to Norfolk.
- Her home and a reproduction of the 1873 stockade are open to the public.
- Jim distributes the arms and plans the attack on the General's stockade.
- Dalia was founded during the last wave of the tower and stockade movement.
- It operates two museums in the city and offers walking tours of the stockade.
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