Definitionn. fortification consisting of a fence made of a line of stout posts set firmly for defense
Last update: October 19, 2015
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In hill stations we comes across many stockades of wood. [noun]
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The bailey was protected by another wooden stockade and a deep ditch. [noun]
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Nearby, the James White Fort still exhibits portions of the original stockade built in 1786 by Knoxville 's founder. [noun]
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In 1632 the residents of Watertown protested against being compelled to pay a tax for the erection of a stockade fort at Cambridge; this was the first protest in America against taxation without representation and led to the establishment of representative government in the colony. [Please select]
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"They are safe in a stockade at the next village," the man said. [Please select]
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The corral stockade was breached in many places by the years that had rotted the posts. [Please select]
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Raging inwardly, and a prey to the blackest passions, he strode toward the stockade. [Please select]
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Sometimes the feudal lord allowed these people to surround their houses with a stockade. [Please select]
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Even New Amsterdam with its stockade was not safe. [Please select]
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