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Stockade

noun

Fortification consisting of a fence made of a line of stout posts set firmly for defense.

A penal camp where political prisoners or prisoners of war are confined (usually under harsh conditions). Synonym: concentration camp.

verb

(past & past part. stockaded; pres. part. stockading)

Surround with a stockade in order to fortify.

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"Stockade" Quotes from Famous Books

... themselves snugly in their dog sledges, the five hundred miles that separated them from the Fort were soon reduced to nothing; and one afternoon, four small sledges, each carrying a "young voyageur," with a large bloodhound galloping in the rear, were seen driving up to the stockade fence surrounding the Fort. ...

— Popular Adventure Tales • Mayne Reid

... of whispered comment and complaint as they wriggled their way forward through brush to look down on a Union blockhouse and stockade guarding a railroad trestle. ...

— Ride Proud, Rebel! • Andre Alice Norton

... the largest and most stately, was the Craigie House, famous as the headquarters of Washington in 1776, and afterwards as the home of Longfellow. And at the end of the New Road toward Cambridge was a row of six fine willows, which had remained from the stockade built in early days as a ...

— Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, • Sherwin Cody

... opposite direction from the trading center, off through the forest until they came to a wide section of several miles which had been rigorously cleared of any vegetation which might give cover to a lurking enemy. In the center of this was a twelve-foot-high stockade of the bright red, burnished wood which had attracted Weeks on the shore. Each paling was the trunk of a tree and it had been sharpened at the top to a wicked point. On the field side was a wide ditch, ...

— Plague Ship • Andre Norton

... professor said. "But ever since then I have seen that we of the present time are the great pioneers, the discoverers, the explorers of this new world. Instead of blazing our trail through a wilderness of trees we dredge our way through a wilderness of waters; instead of a stockade around a blockhouse to protect us against wild beasts and wilder Indian foes, we have but a thin plank between us and destruction; instead of a few wolves and mountain-lions to prey upon the few head of stock we might raise, we have thousands of millions of fierce, finny pirates with which ...

— The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries • Francis Rolt-Wheeler

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