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stockade

[sto-keyd] / 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

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

Sr. recalls he started writing when he was in the stockade during the army.

From Salon Dec. 2, 2022

I was half way between waking and slumber in the dark corner of the stockade, shivering beneath my blanket—my shoes once again my own—my spirits ebbing with fatigue.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

It needs foreign aid to replenish its stockades and help even the odds.

From Seattle Times Feb. 23, 2024

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

Each night he walked atop the Wall with Lady Melisandre, and during the days he visited the stockades, picking captives out for the red woman to question.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

They are a quiet and inoffensive folk, who dwell in stockaded encampments, and preserve their ancestral language and customs.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various

From that time he took care that either Barney or himself should be always in the stockaded camp.

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

He had wasted no time stockading huts or seeding patches.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Nickerson, Ansel D.

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 Overend, William Heysham

The night was very dark, and the wind howled and sang through the stockading, and none seemed to be about the place.

From Wulfric the Weapon Thane by Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)

Twenty-four machines, captured from the Saracens by St. Lewis in his first partial success on the Nile, afforded material for stockading his whole camp.

From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Yule, Henry




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