Definition of "stockade" [stock•ade]

• A defensive barrier made of strong posts or timbers driven upright side by side into the ground. (noun)
• A similar fenced or enclosed area, especially one used for protection. (noun)
• A jail on a military base. (noun)
• To fortify, protect, or surround with a stockade. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "A big but insecure stockade is built of branches and bamboo poles."
• "The Lone Star Stories Reader got reviewed by Publishers Weekly and my story "Wolf Night" got a very nice mention: The western meets dark fantasy in Martha Wells's standout “Wolf Night,” when a group of people barricaded in a stockade are attacked by an otherworldly creature."
• "Studentswere busy organizing against the campus military center, sometimes called the stockade, holding demonstrations and putting anti-war material in front of the recruiting and training center."