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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

“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

We were back within the stockade, confusion all around us, men screaming at each other and officers bellowing for order, the drummers playing tattoos to draw us to attention.

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

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

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

The pioneers had been confined to their stockaded forts, and only small bands of riflemen sallied out to patrol the country.

From Erskine Dale?Pioneer by John Fox

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 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

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

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