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stockade

[sto-keyd]

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noun

Fortification.��a defensive barrier consisting of strong posts or timbers fixed upright in the ground.
an enclosure or pen made with posts and stakes.
U.S. Military.��a prison for military personnel.

verb (used with object)

stockaded, stockading

to protect, fortify, or encompass with a stockade.

stockade

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noun

an enclosure or barrier of stakes and timbers
a military prison or detention area

verb

(tr) to surround with a stockade

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Word History and Origins

Origin of stockade¹

1605–15; < Middle French estocade, variant of estacade < Spanish estacada. See stake ¹, -ade ¹

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Word History and Origins

Origin of stockade¹

C17: from Spanish estacada, from estaca a stake, post, of Germanic origin; see _stake ¹

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Then several hundred men who had called for the work stoppage were rounded up and held without bail in a specially built “stockade.”

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Rejecting a First Amendment challenge, the court upheld Private Wilson’s conviction and sentence to four months in the stockade, a bad-conduct discharge, and other penalties.

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The Times, taking the opposite line, reported that Glenn and another student, Brendon Barr, were adjudged “incorrigible” and clocked in a stockade as a last resort.

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Most of us do not want to see an ex-president pilloried or put in the stockade, literally or metaphorically.

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You can put Trump in a military stockade.

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stock stockade fence

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