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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 stood shoulder to shoulder for some time; until, my eye being drawn by a motion in the far part of the stockade, I saw that there was activity at the gates.

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

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

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

Knights and barons possess fortified dwellings, and exercise unbounded power within their stockaded estates—stockaded against bushmen, forest savages, against bands of gipsies, and against wild cattle and horses.

From The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies by Sir Walter Besant

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 Washington Irving

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 Ansel D. Nickerson

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 Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler

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

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