stockade

Wooden defensive barrier

A stockade is a defensive barrier made of upright wooden posts or stakes, typically enclosing a fort or settlement: The colonists built a stockade around the village.

By extension, a stockade is a military prison or detention area, especially for temporary confinement.

As a verb, to stockade is to fortify with such a barrier or to confine in a military prison.

prison

jail

Detention facility

captivity · imprisonment · lockup · internment · custody · penitentiary · correctional · reformatory · dungeon · brig

fortification

palisade

Fence of pointed stakes

  • bastionFortified defensive position
  • rampartFortified defensive wall
  • bulwarkDefensive fortification or safeguard

parapet · earthwork · stronghold · citadel · fortress · outpost · keep · battlement · redoubt · entrenchment

barrier

fence

Boundary structure between properties

perimeter · boundary · enclosure · partition · gate · cordon · picket fence · defensive perimeter

enclosure

corral

Fenced livestock enclosure

  • penInk-filled writing tool
  • compoundCombined into one
  • yardLinear measure or grounds

paddock · encampment · holding pen · animal enclosure · fenced area

Categories
Opposites
confinement vs. freedom

stockadefreedom

Absence of constraint

liberty · open country · release · emancipation · liberation

enclosure vs. open space

stockadeoutside

Beyond the boundary

open field · open ground · wilderness · open country · exterior

fortification type

stockadecastle

Fortified medieval residence

stone walls · citadel · stone keep · brick wall · concrete bunker

Phrases
Family

stockades, stockaded, stockading

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated G