stockadedadj.
/stɒˈkeɪdɪd/ a. Protected with a stockade.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > palisade or stockade > [adjective]
hurdiseda1500
palisadoed1612
stockadoed1675
stockaded1778
palisaded1793
picketed1885
1778 T. Hutchins Topogr. Descr. Virginia 29 Ouiatanon is a small stockaded fort.
1836 M. Scott Cruise of Midge ii. 32 The fort..was a stockaded enclosure.
1908 H. H. Johnston G. Grenfell & Congo I. xi. 197 They suddenly burst out of their own stockaded settlement on the rest of the town.
b. Of an island: Artificially formed by driving piles into the bed of the water.
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > island > [adjective] > other
stockaded1863
offshore1886
1863 C. Lyell Geol. Evid. Antiq. Man 30 These ‘stockaded islands,’ as they [i.e. Irish lake-dwellings] have been sometimes called.
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adj.1778