stockade• The fort, an enclosedstockade, is a quarter-mile walk away.• An extrameasure of safety came from a high stockade.• The inhabitantshuddle around hugelogfires in timber halls protected by massivestockades.• More pirates were starting to climb into the stockade.• She said the police would come to take me into the stockade like the cruel and wildanimal I was.• Two men were outside the stockade, one waving a white cloth.• The principle is that the stockade will give but not break.• Suddenly, guns were fired again, and a group of pirates ran from the woods and on to the stockade.
Originstockade
(1600-1700)Spanishestacada, from estaca“pointed stick”