Stockade

Definition: Stockade

Stockade

Noun

1. Fortification consisting of a fence made of a line of stout posts set firmly for defense.

2. A penal camp where political prisoners or prisoners of war are confined (usually under harsh conditions).

Verb

1. Surround with a stockade in order to fortify.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "stockade" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references)

Military

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Stockade

Defense

Safeguard; (safety); balistraria; bunker, screen; (shelter); camouflage; (concealment); fortification; munition, muniment; trench, foxhole; bulwark, fosse, moat, ditch, entrenchment, intrenchment; kila; dike, dyke; parapet, sunk fence, embankment, mound, mole, bank, sandbag, revetment; earth work, field-work; fence, wall dead wall, contravallation; paling; (inclosure); palisade, haha, stockade, stoccado, laager, sangar; barrier, barricade; boom; portcullis, chevaux de frise; abatis, abattis, abbatis; vallum, circumvallation, battlement, rampart, scarp; escarp, counter-scarp; glacis, casemate; vallation, vanfos.

Prison

Bolt, deadbolt, bar, lock, police lock, combination lock, padlock, rail, wall, stone wall; paling, palisade; fence, picket fence, barbed wire fence, Cyclone fence, stockade fence, chain-link fence; barrier, barricade.

Crosswords: Stockade

These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. (The A-Team; writing credit: Marissa Garrido; Henrique Lobo)

Eureka Stockade (1949)

Behind the Stockade (1911)

Eureka Stockade (1907)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Eureka rediscovered : in search of the site of the historic stockade (reference)

• Fort Dix stockade; our prison camp next door (reference)

• Historic American Forts from Frontier Stockade to (reference)

• Secret of the Slavers Stockade (reference)

• The Eureka Stockade (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Columbus Stockade Blues [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Twentieth-century replica of log stockade tower at Stroganov compound, Sol'vychegodsk, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540.

Rappahannock Station, Va. Sutler's hut and stockade of 50th New York Engineers. Credit: Library of Congress.

Indians meeting with admiral and officers at stockade. Credit: Library of Congress.

Franklin directing building of stockade fort. Credit: Library of Congress.

Stockade and gates closing the approach to the long bridge. Credit: Library of Congress.

Kids in fenced enclosure in front of stockade. Ranch in Sutton County, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

North-West, no. 1, from Stockade Tower, Camp Sevier, S.C. Credit: Library of Congress.

South-west from Stockade Tower, no. 1, Camp Sevier, S.C. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Human Rights

Liberia

Similar conditions exist in the Barclay Training Center military stockade. (references)

Croatia

The Dalmatian Committee for Human Rights, an NGO in Split, was instrumental in encouraging the reopening of the investigation of war crimes committed at the Lora naval stockade in Split. (references)

Liberia

Five detained soldiers awaiting court-martial for desertion during the September 1998 incident have been incarcerated in the stockade since November 1998. Their court-martials still are pending; should they be convicted, the maximum sentence would be 6 months' imprisonment. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Ending with "stockade": prison-stockade.

Albanian

kamp i rrethuar ma gardh mbrojtës, gardh mbrojtës (palisade), gardh (barrier, fence, hedge, hindrance, hurdle, impediment, obstacle, pale, rail, rails, ring fence). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حضن بحاجز, ‏حظيرة (cowshed, enclosure, pen, stockyard, yard), ‏جدار شائك. (various references)

Bulgarian 

укрепление от колове, затвор (bastille, bondage, calaboose, can, choky, clink, confinement, duress, gaol, hold, jail, jug, kitty, limbo, lock, lockup, mew, pen, penitentiary, pokey, pound, prison, prison house, quod, shop, shut off, shutter, shuttle, stopper), палисада (pailing, palisade). (various references)

Chinese 

� � (stronghold), 梐 , � �� �, 寨 (stronghold). (various references)

Czech

palisáda (palisade). (various references)

Farsi 

مسدودساختن , حصاربندی , ایجادمانع , انسداد (Bloc, Block, Blockade, Blockage, Choke, Let, Obstruction, Occlusion, Padlock). (various references)

French

prison militaire, palissader, palissade. (various references)

German

palisadenzaun (paling, palisade, picket fence), palisade (fence, palisade, picket fence), einzäunung (enclosure, fence, fencing, palisade), einfriedung (enclosure, fence, hedge, wall). (various references)

Greek 

περιφράσσω (pale). (various references)

Hebrew 

מכלא�" (byre, corral, cot, fold, pale, pen, pound), קיר (border, rim, wall), �'�"ר משוכות, �'�"ר כלו� סאות (paling). (various references)

Hungarian

cölöpkerítés. (various references)

Italian

palizzata (fence, paling, palings, palisade). (various references)

Korean 

영창 (cell). (various references)

Manx

sonnagh (palings, sonic), cur sonnagh mysh. (various references)

Pig Latin

ockadestay

Portuguese

paliçada (pale, paling, palisade, railing), estacada (groyne, pale, paling, palisade, railing, tilt-yard), cadeia (cage, calaboose, catena, chain, choky, clink, cufflink, ewer, fetter, gaol, jail, jug, network, orlop, penitentiary, pokey, prison, prison house, quad, quod, shackle, ward). (various references)

Romanian

palisadã (paling, palisade), estacadã (boom, elevated runway, scaffold, trestle), întãri cu o palisadã. (various references)

Russian 

укрепление (consolidation, fortification, reinforcement). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zatvor (calaboose, choky, clink, confinement, cooler, coop, jail, lockup, obstipation, prison, prison house, quod, stir), palisada (palisade). (various references)

Spanish

prisión militar (guardhouse), palanca (bar, crowbar, hand gear, handgrip, handle, influence, lever, leverage, levers, prise, prize, pry, pull, purchase, springboard, toggle), estacada (dike, dyke, fence, fencing, jab, lurch, paling, palisade, prick). (various references)

Swedish

palissad (palisade). (various references)

Thai

บริเว�"ที่ล้อมรอบ�"้วยรั้วสูง, ล้อมรั้ว (fence), รั้วสูงล้อมรอบ, คุกทหาร. (various references)

Turkish

kazıklarla yapılmış set, kazıklarla set yapmak, hapishane (bull pen, cage, can, choky, clink, cooler, coop, gaol, institution, jail, Nick, pen, penal institution, penitentiary, pound, prison, quod, roundhouse, shop, stir, tank, ward), cezaevi (calaboose, jail, penal institution, penitentiary, prison, quod, roundhouse), şarampol. (various references)

Ukrainian

частокіл, форт (bastille). (various references)

Welsh

crau (blood, eye, gore, hole, socket, sty). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "stockade": stockaded, stockades. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Stockade" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Sociadad. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: coasted, dockets, stacked, stocked.

-2 letters: cadets, casked, casket, coated, costae, costed, docket, octads, sacked, skated, soaked, socked, socket, staked, stoked, tacked, tasked.

-3 letters: acted, ascot, asked, cades, cadet, caked, cakes, cased, caste, cates, cesta, coast, coats, codas, codes, coeds, coked, cokes, coset, costa, coted, cotes, daces, dates, datos, decks, decos, doats, docks, doest.

+1 letter: headstock, stockaded, stockades.

+2 letters: dockmaster, headstocks.

+3 letters: backstopped, dockmasters, spatterdock.

+4 letters: postcardlike, spatterdocks.