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Stockade

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Noun, Verb (transitive)
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Stockade has 2 senses

Verb Stockade has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

Stockaden. [F. estacade stockade, boom (confused in French with estocade; see 1st Stoccado); fr. It. steccata a palisade (influenced by OF. estach, estaque, a stake, post), or from Sp. estacada a palisade; both of German origin, and akin to E. stake, stick; cf. G. stecken stick, OHG. steccho. See Stake, n., Stick, n. & v. t., and cf. Estacade, Stacket.].
  •  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.  [1913 Webster]
  •  An inclosure, or pen, made with posts and stakes.  [1913 Webster]
Stockadev. t. 
     To surround, fortify, or protect with a stockade.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Stockade, n. & v.
--n. a line or enclosure of upright stakes.
--v.tr. fortify with a stockade.

Etymology
obs. F estocade, alt. of estacade f. Sp. estacada: rel. to STAKE(1)

THESAURUS

Stockade

POW camp, abatis, advanced work, balistraria, bank, banquette, barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barricade, barrier, bartizan, bastille, bastion, battlement, black hole, borstal, borstal institution, breastwork, bridewell, brig, bulwark, calaboose, can, casemate, cell, cheval-de-frise, circumvallation, concentration camp, condemned cell, contravallation, cooler, coop, counterscarp, curtain, death cell, death house, death row, demibastion, detention camp, dike, drawbridge, earthwork, enclosure, entanglement, escarp, escarpment, federal prison, fence, fieldwork, forced-labor camp, fortalice, fortification, gaol, glacis, guardhouse, guardroom, hoosegow, house of correction, house of detention, industrial school, internment camp, jail, jailhouse, jug, keep, labor camp, lockup, loophole, lunette, machicolation, mantelet, maximum-security prison, merlon, minimum-security prison, mound, oubliette, outwork, palisade, parados, parapet, pen, penal colony, penal institution, penal settlement, penitentiary, portcullis, postern gate, prison, prison camp, prisonhouse, rampart, ravelin, redan, redoubt, reform school, reformatory, sally port, scarp, sconce, sponging house, state prison, tenaille, the hole, tollbooth, training school, vallation, vallum, work

ROGET THESAURUS

Stockade

Defense

N defense, protection, guard, ward, shielding, propugnation, preservation, guardianship, area defense, site defense, self-defense, self-preservation, resistance, safeguard, balistraria, bunker, screen, camouflage, fortification, munition, muniment, trench, foxhole, bulwark, fosse, moat, ditch, entrenchment, intrenchment, kila, dike, dyke, parapet, sunk fence, embankment, mound, mole, bank, sandbag, revetment, earth work, field- work, fence, wall dead wall, contravallation, paling, palisade, haha, stockade, stoccado, laager, sangar, barrier, barricade, boom, portcullis, chevaux de frise, abatis, abattis, abbatis, vallum, circumvallation, battlement, rampart, scarp, escarp, counter-scarp, glacis, casemate, vallation, vanfos, buttress, abutment, shore, breastwork, banquette, curtain, mantlet, bastion, redan, ravelin, vauntmure, advance work, horn work, outwork, barbacan, barbican, redoubt, fort-elage, fort-alice, lines, loophole, machicolation, sally port, hold, stronghold, fastness, asylum, keep, donjon, dungeon, fortress, citadel, capitol, castle, tower of strength, tower of strength, fort, barracoon, pah, sconce, martello tower, peelhouse, blockhouse, rath, wooden walls, bulletproof vest, armored vest, buffer, corner stone, fender, apron, mask, gauntlet, thimble, carapace, armor, shield, buckler, aegis, breastplate, backplate, cowcatcher, face guard, scutum, cuirass, habergeon, mail, coat of mail, brigandine, hauberk, lorication, helmet, helm, bassinet, salade, heaume, morion, murrion, armet, cabaset, vizor, casquetel, siege cap, headpiece, casque, pickelhaube, vambrace, shako, bearskin, panoply, truncheon, garrison, picket, piquet, defender, protector, guardian, bodyguard, champion, knight-errant, Paladin, propugner, bulletproof window, hardened site, defending, defensive, mural, armed, armed at all points, armed cap-a-pie, armed to the teeth, panoplied, iron-plated, ironclad, loopholed, castellated, machicolated, casemated, defended, proof against, armored, ballproof, bulletproof, hardened, defensively, on the defense, on the defensive, in defense, at bay, pro aris et focis, Int, no surrender!, defense not defiance, Dieu defend le droit, fidei defensor, defender of the faith.

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