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Word | Stockade |
Chinese Meaning | 寨, 梐, 砦, 栅栏; 用木栅围住地方 |
a penal camp where political prisoners or prisoners of war are confined (usually under harsh conditions) / fortification consisting of a fence made of a line of stout posts set firmly for defense / 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. / wooden enclosure or pen; fixed line of posts used as defensive barrier / a barrier formed from upright wooden posts or stakes, especially as a defense against attack or as a means of confining animals. / a line of tall posts that are set in the ground and used as a barrier to protect or defend a place, | |
Usage | ⇒ In hill stations we comes across many stockades of wood ⇒ The Indians are coming! Quick! Round up the horses and drive them into the stockade. ⇒ prisoners of war confined in a stockade ⇒ Villages of 3 to 6 people were protected by a triple-walled stockade of wooden stakes 15 to 2 feet tall. |
Synonyms | fence, barricade, palisade, barrier, penitentiary, prison, wall, concentration camp, enclosure, jail, pen, bar, brig, bulwark, cell, cooler, coop, dungeon, fortification, jailhouse, |
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