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.
- A big but insecure stockade is built of branches and bamboo poles.
- During the 1970s reconstruction, much of the stockade was replaced.
- That evening the British abandon the stockade and return to Norfolk.
- A gigantic tree grows within the stockade, which is a very poor one.
- 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.
- The stockade was a solid palisade of saplings driven deep into the ground and covering an area of twenty feet by eighteen.
- That the redskins were making an attack in force on the stockade was my first and immediate conclusion, but it gave me no great uneasiness since
- Keddah -- that is, the stockade -- looked like a picture of the end of the world, and men had to make signs to one another, because they could not hear themselves speak.
- Almost the first object that met their eyes as they neared the stockade was a jagged break in the structure caused by a large object that had come crashing down upon it.
- He and the others set to work to clear the grounds within, called the stockade, and then a long, low log house was started at one side, and a low storehouse and horse stable at the other.
- Studentswere busy organizing against the campus military center, sometimes called the stockade, holding demonstrations and putting anti-war material in front of the recruiting and training center.
- But the most awkward part of the stockade was the part out of sight: some of the piles which had been driven in did not appear above water, so that it was dangerous to sail up, for fear of running the ships upon them, just as upon a reef, through not seeing them.
- The Lone Star Stories Reader got reviewed by Publishers Weekly and my story "Wolf Night" got a very nice mention: The western meets dark fantasy in Martha Wells's standout “Wolf Night,” when a group of people barricaded in a stockade are attacked by an otherworldly creature.