Sentence examples similar to high stockade from inspiring English sources
My husband must have forgotten to lock up after letting the dogs into the backyard, relying as we often did on the 10-foot-high stockade fence and abundance of neighbors and passers-by to deter criminals.
At a cost of $760,000, officials want to build a 15-foot-high wall -- the type of noise barrier system used on highways -- that would run for 790 feet and replace an aging six-foot-high stockade fence.
T159 is a small two-roomed building inside a high barbed-wire stockade on Robben Island.
The fort, completed June 2, was not much more than a wooden stockade 7 feet high and about 50 feet in diameter surrounded by a ditch.
Recidivism six month later was 60% higher among those who went to the stockade, and based on that finding the Commanding General changed the standard punishment for first AWOL to extra labor but no imprisonment.
Although the ramparts were low, they were well protected with a double wet ditch, a high thorny hedge reinforced with stakes and a wooden stockade and fire-step.
The earthworks, usually several metres high and constructed mostly of sand and clay, were reinforced with gabions and surrounded by a dry moat, a stockade and a line of trous de loup.
Wall Street was once just a wall on a fort, actually a stockade built for the West India Company by the legendary Peter Stuyvesant, after whom one of New York's leading high schools is named.
After that she added the stockade fencing.
"You'll go to the stockade".
