[
US
/ˈstɑˌkeɪd/
]
[ UK /stˈɒkeɪd/ ]
[ UK /stˈɒkeɪd/ ]
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)
VERB
- surround with a stockade in order to fortify
How To Use stockade In A Sentence
- As surveyor and topographer, he took on the task of making sketches of the stockades.
- In the frontier-land, fences and stockades announce intentions rather than mark realities.
- A heavy stockade around the cabin protected the pioneer from attack.
- These men promptly escaped from a maximum-security stockade to the Los Angeles underground.
- The expedition constructed winter quarters, consisting of an enclosed stockade and barracks.
- Fortunately for the Kingdom forces, when they reached the wall, they found a wooden stockade. SHARDS OF A BROKEN CROWN
- The farmstead had storage pits, drying frames and granaries, and was surrounded by a stockade.
- Sirloin Stockade has a great dessert item -- hot fudge cake -- which is an undercooked brownie-like substance saturated with fudge sauce.
- Corporal punishment and physical hazing of American soldiers was still permitted, including use of the stockade.
- As surveyor and topographer, he took on the task of making sketches of the stockades.