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stockade

[sto-keyd] / stɒˈkeɪd /


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In the summer of 2008, Epstein began serving his sentence at the Palm Beach County stockade.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 6, 2026

“It was like you’d gone back into the stockade and you could shut the gate and get on with the work.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 5, 2025

Rejecting a First Amendment challenge, the court upheld Private Wilson’s conviction and sentence to four months in the stockade, a bad-conduct discharge, and other penalties.

From Salon Apr. 6, 2025

He talked back to Naval superiors when he served during World War II and got tossed in the stockade.

From Washington Post Apr. 25, 2023

There was a guard standing at the corner of the stockade, but he didn’t seem to be too alert.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

Those trenches helped the team identify post holes that in turn led to the pattern of holes and a stockade trench that matched stockades at other 18th-century military sites, Crawmer said.

From Seattle Times Oct. 28, 2022

In the later stages of Cahokia, the ruling class surrounded themselves with fortified wooden stockades, including a two-mile long wall that enclosed Monks Mound.

From Salon Aug. 16, 2022

This applies universally but, with faith — I assume thanks to millennia of stakes, stockades and harangues — the tiptoeing impulse is strong.

From Washington Post Jun. 17, 2022

The term has also been synonymous with prisoner of war camps and stockades.

From Fox News Oct. 28, 2021

They built neither stockades nor trenches around their camps.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

I lingered until Michaela stockaded me in upturned chairs and dragged back to the flat.

From The Verge Mar. 31, 2018

Show me round your little kingdom, Sergeant Crusoe," ordered the captain, "the stockaded hut and the wheat patch and the goat pen, and so on.

From Time Magazine Archive

The bustling scene of the stockaded fur-trading post at Fort Laramie was painted by Alfred Jacob Miller in 1837, when the Rocky Mountain fur trade had already passed its peak.

From Time Magazine Archive

Towards dusk on the following evening, a party of twenty-five carriers were marching through the forest in the direction of Elbel's stockaded camp.

From Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo by Strang, Herbert

As the huts 114 opened inward, they had a stockaded place easy of defence.

From Explorers and Travellers by Greely, Adolphus W.

He had wasted no time stockading huts or seeding patches.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even the women had been compelled to labour in the work of stockading, and the sufferings of all had been terrible.

From On the Irrawaddy A Story of the First Burmese War by Overend, William Heysham

Twenty-four machines, captured from the Saracens by St. Lewis in his first partial success on the Nile, afforded material for stockading his whole camp.

From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Yule, Henry

We remained here about three months, building and stockading our winter quarters, drilling and doing picket duty, and making occasional raids when we felt sure that the enemy was a safe distance from us.

From A Raw Recruit's War Experiences by Nickerson, Ansel D.

The pioneers had been sent up, and we commenced intrenching and stockading the hill round the huts, which were in number about twenty.

From Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment by Shipp, John




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