stockade – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
stockade
v.
surround with a stockade, protect by means of a stockade
n.
fence comprised of tall stakes placed upright in the ground; wall, enclosure, defense barrier
Stockade
A
stockade is an enclosure of
palisades and tall walls made of logs placed side by side vertically with the tops sharpened to provide security.
stockade
Noun
1. fortification consisting of a fence made of a line of stout posts set firmly for defense
(hypernym) fortification, munition
2. a penal camp where political prisoners or prisoners of war are confined (usually under harsh conditions)
(synonym) concentration camp
(hypernym) penal institution, penal facility
(hyponym) Auschwitz
Verb
1. surround with a stockade in order to fortify
(hypernym) wall, palisade, fence, fence in, surround
Stockade
(v. t.)
To surround, fortify, or protect with a stockade.
(v. t.)
An inclosure, or pen, made with posts and stakes.
(v. t.)
A line of stout posts or timbers set firmly in the earth in contact with each other (and usually with loopholes) to form a barrier, or defensive fortification.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
stockade
Synonyms and related words:
POW camp, abatis, advanced work, balistraria, bank, banquette, barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barricade, barrier, bartizan, bastille, bastion, battlement, black hole, borstal, borstal institution, breastwork, bridewell, brig, bulwark, calaboose, can, casemate, cell, cheval-de-frise, circumvallation, concentration camp, condemned cell, contravallation, cooler, coop, counterscarp, curtain, death cell, death house, death row, demibastion, detention camp, dike, drawbridge, earthwork, enclosure, entanglement, escarp, escarpment, federal prison, fence, fieldwork, forced-labor camp, fortalice, fortification, gaol, glacis, guardhouse, guardroom, hoosegow, house of correction, house of detention, industrial school, internment camp, jail, jailhouse, jug, keep, labor camp, lockup, loophole, lunette, machicolation, mantelet, maximum-security prison, merlon, minimum-security prison, mound, oubliette, outwork, palisade, parados, parapet, pen, penal colony, penal institution, penal settlement, penitentiary, portcullis, postern gate, prison, prison camp, prisonhouse, rampart, ravelin, redan, redoubt, reform school, reformatory, sally port, scarp, sconce, sponging house, state prison, tenaille, the hole, tollbooth, training school, vallation, vallum, work
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
