stockade

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Etymology[edit]

From French estocade, equivalent to stock +‎ -ade.

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Noun[edit]

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stockade (plural stockades)

  1. (military) An enclosure protected by a wall of wooden posts.
  2. (colloquial) A military prison.

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stockade (third-person singular simple present stockades, present participle stockading, simple past and past participle stockaded)

  1. (transitive) To enclose in a stockade.

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Verb[edit]

stockade

  1. past indicative of stocka