The word "stockade" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It can be used as a noun or a verb. As a noun, "stockade" refers to a barrier made of upright wooden posts used for defense or confinement. For example: - The soldiers gathered in front of the stockade, ready to defend their territory. - The prisoners were confined within the stockade, surrounded by high walls. As a verb, "stockade" means to surround or fortify with a stockade. For example: - The settlers stockaded their village to protect it from potential attacks. - The camp was stockaded with logs to keep out wild animals. Overall, "stockade" is commonly used in military and historical contexts, or when describing barriers or fortifications made of wooden posts.
When the historian began her research on the Eureka stockade, The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka, she comments that colleagues asked, "'What could you possibly say about the Eureka stockade that hasn't been said in 150 years?
After the war, Dachau was used by American forces as a military stockade, then as a refugee camp for Germans expelled from the Sudetenland.
Using a small bicycle cart, now tucked securely between the hut and its flimsy stockade of thorn-branches, he fetches the carcasses, skins them and leaves what remains for the dogs.
His great-great-uncle, a university professor, heard of trouble at the local stockade, he explains.
In the wasteland outside Sarju's stockade, two men, squatting a modest 20 yards apart, are chatting companionably as they take their morning purge.A cyclist, wearing a chequered-blue sarong and T-shirt, the attire of many village men, pulls up outside the hut.
Its site, 14 miles (23 km) east of Montreal city, was first occupied by Fort-Chambly, a wooden stockade built in 1665 by Captain Jacques de Chambly, a French army officer and leader of the Carignan Regiment.
A log stockade constructed in 1794 by General Anthony Wayne after the Battle of Fallen Timbers, near what is now Toledo, Ohio (reconstructed 1975), gave the town its name.
He built dwellings, a chapel, a hospital, and other structures, protecting the settlement against Indian attack with a stockade.
In community building, the walled agricultural villages with radial pathways to surrounding fields, the fishing villages that are oriented to a harbour, and the American stockade cluster as well as the village common exemplify the close relationship of folk design to folk activities.
On Dec. 3, 1854, soldiers and police stormed the rebels' stockade.
The town originated with a stockade, Fort Bourke, built in 1835 by Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell as a defense against Aborigines, that was named for Governor Sir Richard Bourke.
