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Synonyms: Noun
bastille, big house [slang], bridewell, brig, calaboose, can, clink [slang], cooler, coop, guardroom, hock, hold, hoosegow, jail, jailhouse, joint [slang], jug, lockup, nick [British slang], pen, penitentiary, pokey [slang], prison, quod [British slang], slam, slammer, stir [slang], tolbooth [Scottish]
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prisoners of war confined in a stockadeRecent Examples on the Web: Noun
He was sentenced to 13 months in jail but was allowed to leave the county stockade on most days and spend the day in his private office. — Tom Hays, The Denver Post, "Jeffrey Epstein found injured in NYC jail cell, source says," 25 July 2019 He was sentenced to 13 months in jail but was allowed to leave the county stockade on most days and spend the day in his private office. — Tom Hays, chicagotribune.com, "Jeffrey Epstein found in NYC jail cell with bruising on his neck," 25 July 2019 Geronimo, his fighters and their families were held in military stockades in Florida and Alabama before arriving at their final prison at Fort Sill. — Matthew Farwell, The New Republic, "America’s Once and Future Concentration Camp," 3 July 2019 The four cow-calf pairs would spend the night in a pen that looked like a little stockade. — Jason Florio, Smithsonian, "The Dangerous Work of Relocating 5,000-Pound Rhinos," 22 May 2018 The wooden stockade and stick-and-mud buildings disintegrated, and the ground was plowed under as part of a plantation. — Laura Johnston, cleveland.com, "Archaeology is changing history at Jamestown, first permanent English settlement in North America," 18 Apr. 2018 Using ancient post holes as a guide, a stockade has been reconstructed around the periphery of Aztalan, giving visitors a fleeting sense of this ancient city’s dimensions. — David Hammond, chicagotribune.com, "Lost cities of the Midwest: A trek back to pre-Columbian times," 21 July 2017 Soldiers abandoned their positions and ran into the stockade. — Gillian Brockell, Washington Post, "The worst July 4 that George Washington ever had — and how it led to a new nation," 4 July 2017 Shaken, Washington rushed back to Great Meadows and ordered the construction of a stockade in anticipation of a French attack. — Gillian Brockell, Washington Post, "The worst July 4 that George Washington ever had — and how it led to a new nation," 4 July 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'stockade.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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