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
- A big but insecure stockade is built of branches and bamboo poles.
- A gigantic tree grows within the stockade, which is a very poor one.
- 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.
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