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STOCKADE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A penal camp where political prisoners or prisoners of war are confined (usually under harsh conditions)

Synonyms:

concentration camp; stockade

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("stockade" is a kind of...):

camp (a penal institution (often for forced labor))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stockade"):

death camp (a concentration camp where prisoners are likely to die or be killed)

Instance hyponyms:

Auschwitz (a Nazi concentration camp for Jews in southwestern Poland during World War II)

Belsen (a Nazi concentration camp for Jews created in northwestern Germany during World War II)

Buchenwald (a Nazi concentration camp for Jews in World War II that was located in central Germany)

Dachau (a concentration camp for Jews created by the Nazis near Munich in southern Germany)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Fortification consisting of a fence made of a line of stout posts set firmly for defense

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("stockade" is a kind of...):

fortification; munition (defensive structure consisting of walls or mounds built around a stronghold to strengthen it)

Derivation:

stockade (surround with a stockade in order to fortify)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Surround with a stockade in order to fortify

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Hypernyms (to "stockade" is one way to...):

fence; fence in; palisade; surround; wall (surround with a wall in order to fortify)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

stockade (fortification consisting of a fence made of a line of stout posts set firmly for defense)

Credits

 Context examples: 

The gigs had leaned to their right, but Hunter and I pulled straight in, in the direction of the stockade upon the chart.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

We made our best speed across the strip of wood that now divided us from the stockade, and at every step we took the voices of the buccaneers rang nearer.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Then I skirted among the woods until I had regained the rear, or shoreward side, of the stockade, and was soon warmly welcomed by the faithful party.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

And I ran to the door in time to see Jim Hawkins, safe and sound, come climbing over the stockade.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Then he advanced to the stockade, threw over his crutch, got a leg up, and with great vigour and skill succeeded in surmounting the fence and dropping safely to the other side.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

We were clear out of the ship, but not yet ashore in our stockade.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

All I ask is your word, Cap'n Smollett, to let me safe and sound out of this here stockade, and one minute to get out o' shot before a gun is fired.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Sure enough, there were two men just outside the stockade, one of them waving a white cloth, the other, no less a person than Silver himself, standing placidly by.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Suddenly, with a loud huzza, a little cloud of pirates leaped from the woods on the north side and ran straight on the stockade.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

At the second trial, the aim was better, and the ball descended inside the stockade, scattering a cloud of sand but doing no further damage.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)