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   stockade

   /stɒˈkeɪd/

   noun

   • 1. a barrier formed from upright wooden posts or stakes, especially as a defence against attack or as a means of confining animals: "they built stockades around their towns"
   • ▪ an enclosure bound by a stockade: "we got ashore and into the stockade"
   • ▪ a military prison: "he surrendered two weeks after escaping the stockade at the air force base"

   verb

   • 1. enclose (an area) by erecting a stockade: "they fortified themselves strongly and stockaded the city"

   Word Origin early 17th century: shortening of obsolete French estocade, alteration of estacade, from Spanish estacada, from the Germanic base of the noun stake1.

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