STOCKADE in a Sentence
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Example sentences for STOCKADE, such as:
1. The sheep were surrounded by stockade in case a sudden storm.
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Meanings and Examples of STOCKADE
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stockade
v. surround with a stockade in order to fortify
n. fortification consisting of a fence made of a line of stout posts set firmly for defense
Classic Sentence:
1 When Champ and I came here we teamed-it with an ox-cart from Sauk Centre to Gopher Prairie, and there was nothing here then but a stockade and a few soldiers and some log cabins.
2 The log stockade which Mrs. Champ Perry was to find when she trekked in was built afterward by the soldiers as a defense against the Sioux.
3 The vast works, a city in themselves, were surrounded by a stockade; and already a full hundred men were waiting at the gate where new hands were taken on.
4 A double stockade, or palisade, composed of pointed beams, which the adjacent forest supplied, defended the outer and inner bank of the trench.
5 There was an entrance from the west through the outer stockade, which communicated by a drawbridge, with a similar opening in the interior defences.
6 The water at the back of the house could be heard, idly spinning whirpools in its creep between the rows of dry feather-headed reeds which formed a stockade along each bank.
Example Sentence:
1 The sheep were surrounded by stockade in case a sudden storm.