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 --
The fortification usually follows the contours of a hill, consisting of one or more lines of earthworks, with stockades or defensive walls, and external ditches.
They fortified the property, erecting a stockade 12 ft high in a roughly triangular shape around the manor house.
He was gassed, injured and hospitalized during protest rallies and incarcerated in a military stockade.
As designed the fort's rear was protected with a wooden palisade or stockade.
Within the stockade were wood framed one story buildings including the barracks, storehouses, officers quarters, mess hall, kitchen and bakery.
In the southwest corner of the stockade was a mess house and the store as well.
Several thousand people lived in this town protected by a stockade made of wattle and daub.
This appears to be the sort of stockade that is set up to prevent anyone from pestering the boss.
