stockade

English

Etymology

From French estocade, equivalent to stock +‎ -ade.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌstɒˈkeɪd/

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• (US) enPR: stä'kādʹ, IPA^(key): /ˌstɑˈkeɪd/
• Rhymes: -eɪd

Noun

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stockade

Wikipedia

stockade (plural stockades)

1. (military) An enclosure protected by a wall of wooden posts.
2. (colloquial) A military prison.

Related terms

• estacade
• stake

Translations

an enclosure protected by a wall of wooden posts

Bulgarian: огра́да от колове f (ográda ot kolove) Czech: palisáda f, kůlová ohrada, hradba z kůlů Dutch: palissade (nl) f Finnish: paalulinnake Galician: estacada m German: Einfriedung aus Palisaden f, Palisadeneinfriedung f, Palisadenmauer f, Palisade (de) f Irish: sonnach m, bábhún m, pailis f Italian: enclave protetta da palizzata f, palizzata (it) f Maori: takitaki, rāihe, pā tūwatawata Ottoman Turkish: شرانپول (şarampol) Russian: частоко́л (ru) m (častokól), палиса́д (ru) m (palisád) Serbo-Croatian: Roman: palisada (sh) f Spanish: estacada (es) f, empalizada (es) f, palizada (es) f, vallada (es) f Swedish: palissad (sv) c, pålverk (sv) n Tagalog: pimpin Turkish: şarampol (tr)

a military prison (colloquial)

Armenian: հաուպտվախտա (hy) (hauptvaxta) Belarusian: гаўптва́хта f (hawptváxta) Bulgarian: ка́рцер m (kárcer) Finnish: putka (fi) Georgian: ჰაუპტვახტი (hauṗṭvaxṭi) Italian: prigione militare f, prigione (it) f Kazakh: гауптвахта (gauptvaxta) Kyrgyz: гауптвахта (gauptvahta) Norwegian: Bokmål: kakebu (no) m or f, vaktarrest m Russian: гауптва́хта (ru) f (gauptváxta), губа́ (ru) f (gubá) (colloquial) Tajik: ҳауптвахта (hauptvaxta) Ukrainian: гауптва́хта f (hauptváxta) Uzbek: gauptvaxta (uz)

Verb

stockade (third-person singular simple present stockades, present participle stockading, simple past and past participle stockaded)

1. (transitive) To enclose in a stockade.

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2025), “stockade”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Swedish

Verb

stockade

1. past indicative of stocka