stockade

Dozens of men, women and children died in the surprise attack, but, respecting kinship ties, the attacking Mohawks spared all save one of the 30 pro-English Mohawks inside the stockade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

Several of those provisions have long been considered nonstarters for Iran, which sees its missile stockade and regional alliances as central to national security.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026

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

On foot and swiftly he went up toward the stockade where swine were penned in hundreds, and at night the guardian of the swine, the forester, slept under arms on duty for his masters.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

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

The Army hath raised stockades and breastworks to the south—to secure the road whereby goods are brought from the Carolinas—and to the east.

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

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

From The Verge ● Mar. 31, 2018

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

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 Wakimbu build firmly stockaded villages, tend cattle, and cultivate sorghum and maize, millet and pulse, cucumbers and watermelons.

From The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa by Anna B. Badlam

I asked, for I recalled no stockaded fortress, large or small.

From Solomon by Constance Fenimore Woolson

He had wasted no time stockading huts or seeding patches.

From Time Magazine Archive

Maha Nemiow had moved directly upon Prome; advancing slowly, and constantly stockading himself.

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

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 Henry Yule

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 pioneers had been sent up, and we commenced intrenching and stockading the hill round the huts, which were in number about twenty.

From Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment by John Shipp