'Stockade' definitions:
Definition of 'stockade'
(from WordNet)
noun
Fortification consisting of a fence made of a line of stout posts set firmly for defense
noun
A penal camp where political prisoners or prisoners of war are confined (usually under harsh conditions) [syn: concentration camp, stockade]
verb
Surround with a stockade in order to fortify
Definition of 'Stockade'
From: GCIDE
- Stockade \Stock*ade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stockaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Stockading.] To surround, fortify, or protect with a stockade. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Stockade'
From: GCIDE
- 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.] [1913 Webster]
- 2. An inclosure, or pen, made with posts and stakes. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'stockade'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abatis,
- advanced work,
- balistraria,
- bank,
- banquette,
- barbed-wire entanglement,
- barbican,
- barricade,
- barrier,
- bartizan,
- bastille,
- bastion,
- battlement,
- black hole,
- borstal,
- borstal institution,
- breastwork,
- bridewell,
- brig,
- bulwark,
- calaboose,
- can,
- casemate,
- cell,
- cheval-de-frise,
- circumvallation,
- concentration camp,
- condemned cell,
- contravallation,
- cooler,
- coop,
- counterscarp,
- curtain,
- death cell,
- death house,
- death row,
- demibastion,
- detention camp,
- dike,
- drawbridge,
- earthwork,
- enclosure,
- entanglement,
- escarp,
- escarpment,
- federal prison,
- fence,
- fieldwork,
- forced-labor camp,
- fortalice,
- fortification,
- gaol,
- glacis,
- guardhouse,
- guardroom,
- hoosegow,
- house of correction,
- house of detention,
- industrial school,
- internment camp,
- jail,
- jailhouse,
- jug,
- keep,
- labor camp,
- lockup,
- loophole,
- lunette,
- machicolation,
- mantelet,
- maximum-security prison,
- merlon,
- minimum-security prison,
- mound,
- oubliette,
- outwork,
- palisade,
- parados,
- parapet,
- pen,
- penal colony,
- penal institution,
- penal settlement,
- penitentiary,
- portcullis,
- postern gate,
- POW camp,
- prison,
- prison camp,
- prisonhouse,
- rampart,
- ravelin,
- redan,
- redoubt,
- reform school,
- reformatory,
- sally port,
- scarp,
- sconce,
- sponging house,
- state prison,
- tenaille,
- the hole,
- tollbooth,
- training school,
- vallation,
- vallum,
- work