1. a defensive barrier made of wooden posts or stakes driven into the ground
2. a military prison or detention facility

1. to surround or protect with a stockade

Examples

• The settlers built a stockade around their village for protection.
• The fort was surrounded by a tall wooden stockade.
• The soldier was sentenced to thirty days in the stockade.
• They stockaded the camp to keep wild animals out.
• The stockade’s wooden posts were sharpened to points.
• Prisoners were held in the military stockade awaiting trial.
• The pioneers stockaded their settlement against Indian attacks.