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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

... presently joined Mrs. Ballard's group, the husband called me to his table and disclosed that almost the worst might be feared of the Honourable George. He was at that moment, it appeared, with a rabble of cow-persons and members of the lower class gathered at a stockade at the edge of town, where various native horses fresh from the wilderness were ...

— Ruggles of Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson

... brawny arms—and impelled forward by pressure from behind. To fire upon it would have been of no avail: our bullets would have been thrown away. As easily might they have pierced through a stockade of tree-trunks. Oh! for a howitzer! but one discharge of iron grape to have crashed through those planks of oak and ash—to have scattered in death, that human machinery that was giving them motion! Slowly and ...

— The Wild Huntress - Love in the Wilderness • Mayne Reid

... received with salutes by an armed guard, we entered one of the main streets of the town which ran from north to south and from east to west. It was broad and on either side of it were the dwellings of the inhabitants set close together because the space within the stockade was limited. These were not huts but square buildings of mud with flat roofs of some kind of cement. Evidently they were built upon the model of Oriental and North African houses of which some debased tradition remained with these people. Thus a stairway ...

— The Ivory Child • H. Rider Haggard

... 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, crossed at the gate by a bridge, the planking of which ...

— Plague Ship • Andre Norton

... of me, yet with no conception of the reality, I followed after the orderly through the stockade gate, and across the small parade ground toward the more pretentious structure occupied by the officers ...

— The Devil's Own - A Romance of the Black Hawk War • Randall Parrish

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