STOCKADE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stockade mean? 

• STOCKADE (noun)
  The noun STOCKADE has 2 senses:

1. fortification consisting of a fence made of a line of stout posts set firmly for defense

2. a penal camp where political prisoners or prisoners of war are confined (usually under harsh conditions)

  Familiarity information: STOCKADE used as a noun is rare.

• STOCKADE (verb)
  The verb STOCKADE has 1 sense:

1. surround with a stockade in order to fortify

  Familiarity information: STOCKADE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STOCKADE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fortification consisting of a fence made of a line of stout posts set firmly for defense

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("stockade" is a kind of...):

fortification; munition (defensive structure consisting of walls or mounds built around a stronghold to strengthen it)

Derivation:

stockade (surround with a stockade in order to fortify)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A penal camp where political prisoners or prisoners of war are confined (usually under harsh conditions)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

concentration camp; stockade

Hypernyms ("stockade" is a kind of...):

camp (a penal institution (often for forced labor))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stockade"):

death camp (a concentration camp where prisoners are likely to die or be killed)

Instance hyponyms:

Auschwitz (a Nazi concentration camp for Jews in southwestern Poland during World War II)

Belsen (a Nazi concentration camp for Jews created in northwestern Germany during World War II)

Buchenwald (a Nazi concentration camp for Jews in World War II that was located in central Germany)

Dachau (a concentration camp for Jews created by the Nazis near Munich in southern Germany)

• STOCKADE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they stockade    ... he / she / it stockades   
Past simple: stockaded   
Past participle: stockaded   
-ing form: stockading   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Surround with a stockade in order to fortify

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Hypernyms (to "stockade" is one way to...):

fence; fence in; palisade; surround; wall (surround with a wall in order to fortify)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

stockade (fortification consisting of a fence made of a line of stout posts set firmly for defense)

 Context examples 

I had nothing nearer my fancy than to get home to the stockade and boast of my achievements.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

There's been blows too, and I reckon your friends has had the best of it; and here they are ashore in the old stockade, as was made years and years ago by Flint.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

At length I thought I might return towards the stockade.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Several bullets struck the log-house, but not one entered; and as the smoke cleared away and vanished, the stockade and the woods around it looked as quiet and empty as before.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Forty paces farther we came to the edge of the wood and saw the stockade in front of us.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Well armed, they stole out of the stockade, but it proved a useless mission.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“I cannot keep her head for the stockade, sir,” said I to the captain.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

With this to help me, I passed rapidly over what remained to me of my journey, and sometimes walking, sometimes running, impatiently drew near to the stockade.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I had not gone a hundred yards when I reached the stockade.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

If the mutineers succeeded in crossing the stockade, he argued, they would take possession of any unprotected loophole and shoot us down like rats in our own stronghold.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)