stockade

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a defensive fence or barrier made from a line of stout upright posts

   The soldiers reinforced the stockade before nightfall.

2. 2
   noun

   an enclosure, especially a prison or military camp, surrounded by such a barrier

   The captured scouts were held inside a guarded stockade.

3. 3
   verb

   to surround or fortify a place with a barrier of upright posts

   The settlers stockaded the compound against attack.

From French estacade, from Spanish estacada, 'a fence or palisade,' from estaca, 'stake or post.' The English form was influenced by stock. The barrier sense later extended to enclosures and prison camps bounded by such posts.

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