stockade

English

Etymology

From French estocade, equivalent to stock +‎ -ade.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌstɒˈkeɪd/

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• (US) enPR: stä'kādʹ, IPA^(key): /ˌstɑˈkeɪd/
• Rhymes: -eɪd

Noun

stockade (plural stockades)

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

Related terms

• estacade
• stake

Translations

an enclosure protected by a wall of wooden posts

• Bulgarian: огра́да от колове f (ográda ot kolove)
• Czech: palisáda f, kůlová ohrada, hradba z kůlů
• Dutch: palissade (nl) f
• Finnish: paalulinnake
• Galician: estacada m
• German: Einfriedung aus Palisaden f, Palisadeneinfriedung f, Palisadenmauer f, Palisade (de) f
• Irish: sonnach m, bábhún m, pailis f
• Italian: enclave protetta da palizzata f, palizzata (it) f
• Maori: takitaki, rāihe, pā tūwatawata
• Ottoman Turkish: شرانپول (şarampol)
• Russian: частоко́л (ru) m (častokól), палиса́д (ru) m (palisád)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: palisada (sh) f

• Spanish: estacada (es) f, empalizada (es) f, palizada f
• Swedish: palissad (sv) c, pålverk (sv) n
• Tagalog: pimpin
• Turkish: şarampol (tr)

a military prison (colloquial)

• Armenian: հաուպտվախտա (hy) (hauptvaxta)
• Belarusian: гаўптва́хта f (haŭptváxta)
• Bulgarian: ка́рцер m (kárcer)
• Finnish: putka (fi)
• Georgian: ჰაუპტვახტი (hauṗṭvaxṭi)
• Italian: prigione militare f, prigione (it) f
• Kazakh: гауптвахта (gauptvaxta)
• Kyrgyz: гауптвахта (gauptvahta)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kakebu (no) m or f, vaktarrest m

• Russian: гауптва́хта (ru) f (gauptváxta), губа́ (ru) f (gubá) (colloquial)
• Tajik: ҳауптвахта (hauptvaxta)
• Ukrainian: гауптва́хта f (hauptváxta)
• Uzbek: gauptvaxta (uz)

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To enclose in a stockade.

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “stockade”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Swedish

Verb

stockade

1. past indicative of stocka