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stockade

[sto-kayd] / stɒˈkeɪd /


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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

Rejecting a First Amendment challenge, the court upheld Private Wilson’s conviction and sentence to four months in the stockade, a bad-conduct discharge, and other penalties.

From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2025

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

While in Palm Beach sheriff’s custody, Epstein was allowed to stay in an isolated cell at the county’s minimum-security stockade, where he roamed freely and watched television.

From Seattle Times ● May 11, 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

Overcrowding inside these stockades saw the spread of tuberculosis and blastomycosis, caused by a soil-borne fungus, along with iron-deficiency anemia.

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

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 common folk were in huts and tents; the chiefs lived in great stockaded timber halls.

From A Short History of the World by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

As the huts 114 opened inward, they had a stockaded place easy of defence.

From Explorers and Travellers by Adolphus W. Greely

He had wasted no time stockading huts or seeding patches.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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

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


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