noun
- defensive barriers made of wooden posts or stakes driven into the ground
- military prisons or detention facilities
Usage: military; historical
Usage: military
verb
- surrounds or fortifies with a defensive barrier of wooden posts
Examples
- The settlers built stockades around their village for protection.
- Enemy forces surrounded the wooden stockades at dawn.
- Soldiers who broke military law were confined to the stockades.
- The fort’s stockades were reinforced with iron bands.
- They stockades the entire perimeter before nightfall.
- Historical stockades can still be seen at the old frontier fort.
- The commanding officer ordered additional stockades built along the ridge.