单词	stockade
释义	stockadestock‧ade /stɒˈkeɪd $ stɑː-/ noun [countable usually singular] Word Origin WORD ORIGINstockade Origin: 1600-1700 Spanish estacada, from estaca ‘pointed stick’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS An extra measure of safety came from a high stockade. More pirates were starting to climb into the stockade. She said the police would come to take me into the stockade like the cruel and wild animal I was. Suddenly, guns were fired again, and a group of pirates ran from the woods and on to the stockade. The fort, an enclosed stockade, is a quarter-mile walk away. The inhabitants huddle around huge log fires in timber halls protected by massive stockades. The principle is that the stockade will give but not break. Two men were outside the stockade, one waving a white cloth. word sets WORD SETS► Defence bomb shelter, nounearthwork, nounentanglement, nounentrenchment, nounmail, nounmoat, nounrepulse, verbresistance, nounstockade, nounwar game, noun a fence built from long thick pieces of wood pushed into the ground, used to defend a place
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