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单词 stockade
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stockaden.

Brit. /stɒˈkeɪd/, U.S. /stɑˈkeɪd/
Forms: Also 1700s–1800s stoccade, (1800s stocade).
Etymology: < French †estocade, corruption of estacade , < Spanish estacada : see staccado n., stockado n.In the 17th cent. the French word was occasionally miswritten estocade , by confusion with estocade sword-thrust, stoccado n. This may be in part the source of the English form.
1. A defensive barrier of stakes or piles placed across a harbour or river, around a building, village, and the like; spec. in Fortification, a barricade for entrenchments and redoubts, usually made of timber, furnished with loopholes for gunfire.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > palisade or stockade > [noun]
shide-wallc1000
barrierc1380
peel?a1400
bails1523
palisade1588
stockado1608
stockade1614
fraise1775
picket1779
estacade1827
zariba1849
boma1860
1614 A. Gorges tr. Lucan Pharsalia ii. 77 (margin) The like [i.e. a boom across the harbour's mouth] was vsed by the Spaniards before Antwerpe, which they tearmed a Stockade.
1777 W. Mason Eng. Garden (ed. 2) ii. 293 As, round some citadel, the engineer Directs his sharp stoccade.
1810 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1836) VI. 10 To secure effectually the breach on the left of the line..by a stockade.
1812 J. J. Henry Accurate Acct. Campaign against Quebec 19 The Fort..consisted of old Block-houses and a stocade.
1834 J. S. Macaulay Treat. Field Fortification 92 Of Stoccades... If the work were a lunette, a stoccade or strong palisade may be placed across the ditch.
1852 Doveton Burmese War i. 19 Rangoon..presented an assemblage of fragile bamboo tenements..encircled by a wooden fence,..known to us by the name of a ‘stockade’.
1865 D. Livingstone & C. Livingstone Narr. Exped. Zambesi xxvii. 557 On the 11th October we arrived at the stockade of Chinsamba.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) I. 162 Stoccades are formidable parapets constructed entirely of wood in situations not exposed to artillery fire... Ordinary stoccades consist of a row of upright timbers 12 or 14 inches in diameter, and from 10 to 15 feet in length.
1892 G. Philips Text Bk. Fortif. Sandhurst (ed. 5) 74 A Stockade is a defensible rifle proof wall, made usually of timber or railway iron, and provided with loopholes to fire from.
2. transferred.
a. (See quot.)
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > hedge or fence > a fence > a palisade
hurdisa1352
palis?a1400
palisade1588
palisado1589
staccado1612
stacket1637
steccado1652
palisadoing1661
palisading1729
stockade1858
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Stockade, a fortification or fence of pointed stakes, in New Zealand called a pah; a cattle-pen.
b. Hydraulic Engineering. A row of piles serving as a breakwater or as a protection to an embankment.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flood or flooding > structures protecting from water or flooding > [noun] > breakwater
countermure1610
breaker1661
water-breakera1689
breakwater1769
floating harbour1841
water break1875
crib-breakwater1879
wave screen1883
stockade1891
Stabit1962
1891 Cent. Dict.
1895 Daily News 21 Mar. 5/3 One of the gales of February..destroyed 3,000 square yards of the stockade between Willop and Dymchurch.
c. A prison, esp. a military one.
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society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > confinement > [noun] > place of confinement
lockOE
prisona1200
jailc1400
pinfoldc1400
mewa1425
pounda1500
coop1579
confine1603
stockade1865
monkey house1910
society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > military
provo1705
provost1728
conjee-house1835
detention barrack1906
mush1917
glasshouse1925
stockade1945
1865 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 286/2 ‘Is it a pen?’.. ‘Yes, yours,’ retorted one of the guard, with a grin,—‘the Stockade Prison.’
1882 W. D. Hay Brighter Britain! I. 23 A man..on a subsequent conviction, might be sent to the Stockade (prison) without the option of a fine.
1903 W. E. B. Du Bois Souls of Black Folk vii. 126 The high whitewashed fence of the ‘stockade,’ as the county prison [Dougherty, Georgia, U.S.] is called.
1906 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 16 Jan. 2/5 [Two men] will be sent to the convict stockade on the islands in the tropics off the coast.
1945 Richmond (Va.) News-leader 10 Oct. 8/1Stockade’ in army language is synonymous with jail.
1979 P. Gosling Zero Trap xix. 191 ‘What's a glasshouse?’.. ‘A prison,’ Skinner explained... ‘The stockade,’ Laura amplified. ‘That's what they call it in the [U.S.] Army.’

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
a.
stockade timber n.
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1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) II. 129/2 This brings the loopholes close to the ground, and exposes as little as possible of the stoccade timbers.
stockade work n.
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1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) II. 129/2 As a rule the side and front walls are constructed of stoccade work.
b.
stockade-like adj.
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1894 Outing 24 337/1 A stockade-like inclosure.
C2.
stockade fort n. [fort n.1 1c] British North American and U.S. a fortified trading station.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > fort or fortified town > [noun] > fortified trading-post
stockade fort1756
stockado fort1766
society > trade and finance > trading place > a centre of commerce > [noun] > trading post > fortified
stockade fort1756
stockado fort1766
1756 G. Washington Let. in Writings (1889) I. 397 I am directed to evacuate all the stockade forts.
1848 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. (rev. ed.) ii. viii. 123 The land being thus fairly purchased of the Indians,..a stockade fort and trading house were forthwith erected.
stockade tambour n. (cf.tambour n. 6).
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > barricade > [noun] > other barriers
treble1569
firewall1578
herisson1704
boat work1782
tambour1834
gabionage1849
knife-rest1858
skerm1861
stockade tambour1892
1892 G. Philips Text Bk. Fortif. Sandhurst (ed. 5) 164 A stockade tambour may be from 6 to 9 feet broad inside, and long enough for three or four men firing each way.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

stockadev.

Brit. /stɒˈkeɪd/, U.S. /stɑˈkeɪd/
Etymology: < stockade n.
transitive. To protect or fortify with a stockade. Also with adverbs in, off, round.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > palisade or stockade > [verb (transitive)]
palisade1632
stacket1637
stockado1647
fraise1706
picket1745
stockade1755
zariba1885
1755 T. Forbes in C. Gist Jrnls. (1893) 150 This Fort was composed of four Houses built by way of Bastions and the intermediate Space stockaded.
1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 183 Having placed the dead on a high scaffold stockaded round.
1811 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) VII. 401 The breach at Badajoz can scarcely be more than stockaded.
1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! xxi We must..stockade a camp, and get our sick and provisions thither.
1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xvi. xiv. 474 Who landed, accordingly, on that rough shore; [and] stockaded themselves in.
1893 F. C. Selous Trav. S.-E. Afr. 297 João's town was well built and very strongly stockaded.
1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 148 A sweetly amicable style for factories, who as a rule firmly stockade themselves off from their next door neighbours.

Derivatives

stoˈckading n. the action of the verb; also, concrete stockade-work.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > palisade or stockade > [noun] > palisading
stavingc1543
palisading1719
stockading1855
1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! xxi I know nought about stockading; but Sir Francis would have given the same counsel.
1881 R. C. Praed Policy & Passion I. 59 Rough stockading..divided the settlers' paddocks from the road.
1897 G. A. Henty On Irrawaddy 175 Even the women had been compelled to labour in the work of stockading.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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