Definition of stockade

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Stock (a.) Used or employed for constant service or application, as if constituting a portion of a stock or supply; standard; permanent; standing; as, a stock actor; a stock play; a stock sermon..

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Crannoge :: Crannoge (n.) One of the stockaded islands in Scotland and Ireland which in ancient times were numerous in the lakes of both countries. They may be regarded as the very latest class of prehistoric strongholds, reaching their greatest development in early historic times, and surviving through the Middle Ages. See also Lake dwellings, under Lake..
Stockade :: Stockade (v. t.) 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..
Zareba :: Zareba (n.) An improvised stockade; especially, one made of thorn bushes, etc..
Barrier :: Barrier (n.) A carpentry obstruction, stockade, or other obstacle made in a passage in order to stop an enemy..
Kraal :: Kraal (n.) A collection of huts within a stockade; a village; sometimes, a single hut..
Stoccado :: Stoccade (n. & v.) See Stockade.
Stock-blind :: Stockade (v. t.) To surround, fortify, or protect with a stockade..
Stockading :: Stockaded (imp. & p. p.) of Stockad.
Stack-guard :: Stacket (n.) A stockade.
Tambour :: Tambour (n.) A work usually in the form of a redan, to inclose a space before a door or staircase, or at the gorge of a larger work. It is arranged like a stockade..
Fort :: Fort (n.) A strong or fortified place; usually, a small fortified place, occupied only by troops, surrounded with a ditch, rampart, and parapet, or with palisades, stockades, or other means of defense; a fortification..
Pah :: Pah (n.) A kind of stockaded intrenchment.
Stockaded :: Stockade (v. t.) An inclosure, or pen, made with posts and stakes..
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