Meaning of 'stockade' in Xhosa is: stockade

stockade: stockade

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Noun(1) fortification consisting of a fence made of a line of stout posts set firmly for defense,a penal camp where political prisoners or prisoners of warare confined (usually under harsh conditions),enclosure; jail(2) fortification consisting of a fence made of a line of stout posts set firmly for defense(3) a penal camp where political prisoners or prisoners of warare confined (usually under harsh conditions)(4) enclosure; jail
Verb(1) surround with a stockade in order to fortify

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(1) A new stockade built in 1717 of wooden stakes quickly fell to ruin.(2) The expedition constructed winter quarters, consisting of an enclosed stockade and barracks.(3) The typical Slav village was surrounded by a wooden stockade .(4) Another day and you would have been in the stockade .(5) One of the few remaining structures from the camp was the concrete stockade , a jail within an internment camp.(6) Each lodge has luxury en suite accommodation in tents the size of bungalows, built on stilts under a roof of thatch, surrounded by an elephant-proof stockade .(7) The motte was an earthen mound, conical in shape and the bailey was a level area around the motte, both of which would have had a wooden stockade surrounding.(8) The stockade which they were encamped in was a wonderful place.(9) These men promptly escaped from a maximum-security stockade to the Los Angeles underground.(10) Rather than giving up on him and discharging him from the Army, he is released from the stockade to return for training.(11) The guards erected a line of fence in front of the stockade , and shot to kill any prisoner who crossed the line.(12) The stockade was a barrier of separation and distrust.(13) White guys in the stockade had fringe benefits.(14) he surrendered two weeks after escaping the stockade at the air force base(15) Hurrying across the paved stone road, they came up to the gate of the wooden stockade wall.(16) we got ashore and into the stockade