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To surround, fortify, or protect with a stockade.

A carpentry obstruction, stockade, or other obstacle made in a passage in order to stop an enemy.

One of the stockaded islands in Scotland and Ireland which in ancient times were numerous in the lakes of both countries. They may be regarded as the very latest class of prehistoric strongholds, reaching their greatest development in early historic times, and surviving through the Middle Ages. See also Lake dwellings,…

In Russia, a prison or stockade for the confinement of prisoners in transit.

ccupied only by troops, surrounded with a ditch, rampart, and parapet, or with palisades, stockades, or other means of defense; a fortification. Detached works, depending solely on their own strength, belong to the class of works termed forts. Farrow.

A collection of huts within a stockade; a village; sometimes, a single hut. [South Africa]

t yet extinct. The kitchen middens of Denmark, the lake dwellings of Switzerland, and the stockaded islands, or "crannogs," of the British Isles, belong to this era. Lubbock.

A kind of stockaded intrenchment. [New Zealand.] Farrow.

A stockade. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

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space before a door or staircase, or at the gorge of a larger work. It is arranged like a stockade.

An improvised stockade; especially, one made of thorn bushes, etc. [Written also zareeba, and zeriba.] [Egypt] "Ah," he moralizes, "what wonderful instinct on the part of this little creature to surround itself with a zareba like the troops after Osman Digma." R. Jefferies.