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   Stock·ade

   /stäˈkād/

   

   noun

   • 1. a barrier formed from upright wooden posts or stakes, especially as a defense against attack or as a means of confining animals: "they built stockades around their towns"
   • ▪ an enclosure bound by a barrier formed from upright wooden posts: "we got ashore and into the stockade"
   • ▪ a military prison: "he surrendered two weeks after escaping the stockade at the air force base"

   verb

   • 1. enclose (an area) by erecting a stockade: "they fortified themselves strongly and stockaded the city"

   Word Origin early 17th century: shortening of obsolete French estocade, alteration of estacade, from Spanish estacada, from the Germanic base of the noun stake1.

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   • We had no form of shelter, and there was no stockade around the camp, only a guard and a dead-line. Stockade definition: a defensive barrier consisting of strong posts or timbers fixed upright in the ground.. See examples of STOCKADE used in a sentence.

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   Why are stockades built?

   • Stockades are also built as a means of protection or defense. Fun fact: Did you know that one of the most famous stockades in America was the original Wall Street in New Amsterdam — that is, the protective wall of wooden stakes dug into the ground that separated the northernmost part of the Dutch settlement from Native American territory?

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   What was a stockade used for in the Battle of plouernel?

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   A stockade is an enclosed pen used to herd cattle and other livestock. Stockades can also house people, in the sense of a penal camp. In both cases, the treatment tends to be on the rough side. Stockades are also built as a means of protection or defense.

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