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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

“It was like you’d gone back into the stockade and you could shut the gate and get on with the work.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 5, 2025

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

I figured they might be able to guess who’d thrown that bayonet into the stockade, but nobody would be able to prove anything.

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

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

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

How could he hope to dislodge from a stockaded camp more than seven hundred, of whom some two hundred and fifty, including Van Vorst's advance guard, were riflemen?

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

The stockaded fort was taken, but the troops were repulsed from the main works.

From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Irving, Washington

He had wasted no time stockading huts or seeding patches.

From Time Magazine Archive

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)

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 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 Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)




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