stockade
pronunciation
How to pronounce stockade in British English:
UK [stɒˈkeɪd]
How to pronounce stockade in American English:
US [stɑˈkeɪd]
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- 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)
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- Verb:
- surround with a stockade in order to fortify
Word Origin
- stockade (n.)
- 1610s, "a barrier of stakes," a nativization of Spanish estacada, from estaca "stake," from a Germanic source cognate with Old English staca, see stake (n.1)). Meaning "military prison" first recorded 1865. As a verb from 1755.
Example
- 1. All you need do is keep out of the stockade .
- 2. More pirates were starting to climb into the stockade .
- 3. I had not gone a hundred yards when I reached the stockade .
- 4. And taped to a stretcher in a military stockade .
- 5. I hear you just got out of the stockade .