0 a strong wooden fence built around an area to defend it against attack
1 a strong wooden fence built around an area to defend it against attack
Around this were built houses to form the homestead and the whole was surrounded by a stockade.
Furthermore, some illustrations show stockade towns in which various tribes lived.
They would immediately look to how to defend their stockade and possibly to extend it.
Is it being suggested that some unfortunate civil servant should be put into the stockade?
The garrisons in these blockhouses improve their defences or lower them according to the state of the world on the other side of the stockade.
The site will be turned into a yuppie stockade in the middle of my constituency.
They had straw huts and straw stockades around groups of huts—until raiders from the north came and burnt them down, which is a regular occurrence.
This appears to be the sort of stockade that is set up to prevent anyone from pestering the boss.