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Definition of Stockade

Stockade
Stockade Stock*ade", n. [F. estacade stockade, boom (confused in French with estocade; see 1st Stoccado); fr. It. steccata a palisade (influenced by OF. estach, estaque, a stake, post), or from Sp. estacada a palisade; both of German origin, and akin to E. stake, stick; cf. G. stecken stick, OHG. steccho. See Stake, n., Stick, n. & v. t., and cf. Estacade, Stacket.] 1. (Mil.) A line of stout posts or timbers set firmly in the earth in contact with each other (and usually with loopholes) to form a barrier, or defensive fortification. [Written also stoccade.] 2. An inclosure, or pen, made with posts and stakes.
Stockade
Stockade Stock*ade", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stockaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Stockading.] To surround, fortify, or protect with a stockade.

Meaning of Stockade from wikipedia

- A stockade is an enclosure of palisades and tall walls, made of logs placed side by side vertically, with the tops sharpened as a defensive wall. Stockade...
- Look up stockade in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A stockade is an architectural element. Stockade may also refer to: a military prison, especially...
- during the Victorian gold rush. It culminated in the Battle of the Eureka Stockade, which took place on 3 December 1854 at Ballarat between the rebels and...
- The Eureka Stockade was a crude battlement built in 1854 by rebel gold miners at Ballarat, Australia during the Eureka Rebellion. It stood from 30 November...
- Sirloin Stockade Steakhouse & Buffet is an American family-style all-you-can-eat buffet steakhouse restaurant chain and franchisor founded in Oklahoma...
- as a fence for enclosure or as a defensive wall. Palisades can form a stockade. Palisade derives from pale, from the Latin word pālus, meaning stake,...
- for the 1978 murders of the Lorenz Family and six employees of a Sirloin Stockade restaurant in Oklahoma. Stafford never acknowledged his guilt, but Stafford's...
- Stockade Companies, LLC is a privately held multi-concept restaurant company based in Round Rock, Texas. Founded in 1984, it operates under three brands...
- The Leesburg Stockade was an event in the civil rights movement in which a group of African-American teenage and pre-teen girls were arrested for protesting...
- The Battle of the Eureka Stockade was fought in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, on 3 December 1854, between gold miners and the colonial forces of Australia...