stockade

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1. stockade - Noun

2. stockade - Verb

Meaning

A line of stout posts or timbers set firmly in the earth in contact with each other (and usually with loopholes) to form a barrier, or defensive fortification.

An inclosure, or pen, made with posts and stakes.

To surround, fortify, or protect with a stockade.

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In order to drill into young men the need to stay alert and stay alive, I used to punish offenders with my fists, boots and rifle butt, and with stockade time. David Hackworth

As we learned on the American frontier, it is impossible to plant corn outside the stockade until the Indians are driven away. Maxwell D. Taylor

According to Lalor's report, fourteen miners (mostly Irish) died inside the stockade and an additional eight died later from injuries they sustained. Source: Internet

According to Charles E. Slocum, the American military built Fort Industry at the mouth of the Maumee about 1805, but as a temporary stockade. Source: Internet

A boma is a circular stockade of wooden poles creating a meeting, or, in this case, dining area. Source: Internet

In a fateful decision, McGill decided to take most of the Californian Rangers away from the stockade to intercept rumoured British reinforcements coming from Melbourne. Source: Internet

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