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stockade

[sto-kayd] / stɒˈkeɪd /


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In the summer of 2008, Epstein began serving his sentence at the Palm Beach County stockade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

The Times, taking the opposite line, reported that Glenn and another student, Brendon Barr, were adjudged “incorrigible” and clocked in a stockade as a last resort.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2024

Most of us do not want to see an ex-president pilloried or put in the stockade, literally or metaphorically.

From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2024

He talked back to Naval superiors when he served during World War II and got tossed in the stockade.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2023

Down there was an empty space of fifty feet or so between the last stump and the stockade.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

Those trenches helped the team identify post holes that in turn led to the pattern of holes and a stockade trench that matched stockades at other 18th-century military sites, Crawmer said.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 28, 2022

In the later stages of Cahokia, the ruling class surrounded themselves with fortified wooden stockades, including a two-mile long wall that enclosed Monks Mound.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2022

This applies universally but, with faith — I assume thanks to millennia of stakes, stockades and harangues — the tiptoeing impulse is strong.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 2022

The term has also been synonymous with prisoner of war camps and stockades.

From Fox News ● Oct. 28, 2021

They built neither stockades nor trenches around their camps.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

I lingered until Michaela stockaded me in upturned chairs and dragged back to the flat.

From The Verge ● Mar. 31, 2018

Show me round your little kingdom, Sergeant Crusoe," ordered the captain, "the stockaded hut and the wheat patch and the goat pen, and so on.

From Time Magazine Archive

The bustling scene of the stockaded fur-trading post at Fort Laramie was painted by Alfred Jacob Miller in 1837, when the Rocky Mountain fur trade had already passed its peak.

From Time Magazine Archive

As the clouds of smoke floated slowly away on the dense atmosphere from the shoulder of the mountain, there burst upon the sight a lovely view of the stockaded palace at Machal-wans.

From The Highlands of Ethiopia by William Cornwallis Harris

Accordingly captain, lieutenant, and regimental pet, with Lepoko as interpreter, left the stockaded camp and crossed to Ilola.

From Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo by Herbert Strang

He had wasted no time stockading huts or seeding patches.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even the women had been compelled to labour in the work of stockading, and the sufferings of all had been terrible.

From On the Irrawaddy A Story of the First Burmese War by William Heysham Overend

The rest of the army were armed with swords and spears, and carried implements for stockading and entrenching.

From On the Irrawaddy A Story of the First Burmese War by William Heysham Overend

We remained here about three months, building and stockading our winter quarters, drilling and doing picket duty, and making occasional raids when we felt sure that the enemy was a safe distance from us.

From A Raw Recruit's War Experiences by Ansel D. Nickerson

The red flames gathered brightness every moment, lighting up two sides of the stockading, in the midst of which the hall stood.

From A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler




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