Stockades is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STOCKADES in dictionary:

VERB:
• STOCKADE, to build a type of protective fence
• enclose (an area) by erecting a stockade
NOUN:
• a barrier formed from upright wooden posts or stakes, especially as a defence against attack or as a means of confining animals
• an enclosure bound by a stockade
• a military prison
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to build a type of protective fence around

Words related to STOCKADES

stockade15 stockaded17 stockading18

How to use STOCKADES in a sentence

• Still, enough remained to enable Maud to perceive that many were watching for her, either at the windows above the cliff, or through different parts of the stockades.
• Here they passed the spring, and following a path which led from it, turned the edge of the rocks, and ascended to the foot of the stockades.
• There being neither lamp nor candle on the exterior of the house, even the loops being darkened, there was little danger in moving about within the stockades.
• Vaulting from their foaming steeds they tied them to the stockades of the little fortress, which they entered in a body.
• It was cut into slopes all round, and fortified by stockades in every direction, which rendered it impregnable.
• He would then have had probably over a thousand men, and light cannon with which to batter down the stockades.
• Through the long, irksome winter, the frontiersmen remained crowded within the stockades.
• The villages began to feel safe without stockades, save those on the extreme border, which were still built in the usual frontier style.
• The settlers were shot as they worked on their clearings, gathered the corn crops, or ventured outside the walls of the stockades.
• The piles of furs and hides that had accumulated in the stockades were sent back to the coast country on pack-horses.
• The rough earthworks and stockades of the fort were guarded by a few light guns.
• In spite of the abuse of enemies, mostly those fellows who sought safety with women and children behind strong stockades, and the declaration of Mr.
• The stockades lay between him and the forest, and they were in the hands of the Iroquois.
• The people of the country were herded in prison camps, in settlements surrounded by stockades or trenches beyond which they might not pass.
• We are now near the Loangwa country, covered with a dense dwarf forest, and the people collected in stockades.
• The elephants sometimes eat the crops of the natives, and flap their big ears just outside the village stockades.
• The villages were mere groups of wooden homesteads, with barns and cattle-sheds, surrounded by rough stockades, and destitute of roads or communications.
• The palisade is irregularly made, and is not superior, of course, to any round the Chinese stockades.
• The native stockades were reinforced with thorn bushes, but these were torn away by the men, with their bare hands, in their eagerness to advance.
• She began to climb into the rising country beyond, as certain of her steps as if she were coming in to her own stockades.
• He joined the camp on the 13th of February at Mienza, passing through forests lined with formidable stockades, a deserted country, and destroyed villages.
• After a desperate struggle, a very small number of British succeeded in storming the stockades and capturing the place.
• Another attack was made on the 10th of June on the stockades at the village of Kemmendine.
• The other half of the army, isolated by the irruption, threw itself back and endeavoured to make a fresh stand at spots defended by batteries and stockades.
• He dismounted from his horse and, accompanied by some knights, entered the house after the posts and stockades had been cleared away.
• We answered with caution and wisdom, for our villages were burnt, our stockades weak, the people weary, and the weapons blunt.
• The approach is generally through an avenue, defended by three stockades, with narrow wicker gates, and only one entrance.
• He built two substantial log houses, about forty feet apart, fronting each other, and closed the end openings with strong stockades.
• These guns were to be covered by musket-proof triangular stockades, of which two would be sufficient to contain all the settlers in their wings.
• The Kaiapois waited until they had eight of the chiefs inside their stockades, and then killed them all.
• Over stockades came the August rustle of the forest.

Similar words containing STOCKADE without suffix s

stockade15 stockaded17

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