† stockadon.
Obsolete.
= stockade n. 1.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > palisade or stockade > [noun]
shide-wallc1000
barrierc1380
peel?a1400
bails1523
palisade1588
stockado1608
stockade1614
fraise1775
picket1779
estacade1827
zariba1849
boma1860
1589 P. Ive Pract. Fortification 38 in tr. R. Beccarie de Pavie Instr. Warres Place in the riuer..a stackado of great piles to keepe an enemy out.]
1608 E. Grimeston tr. J. F. Le Petit Gen. Hist. Netherlands xii. 878 They of Antuerpe made new engines to breake and burne the bridge and Stocadoes [Fr. les estocades] which the prince of Parma had made.
1615 T. Heywood Foure Prentises i, in Wks. (1874) II. 242 Stockadoes, Palizadoes, stop their waters.
1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. II. 204 A simple Captaine of Holland, who talkes nothing but Stoccadoes; and Circumvallation.
1783 W. F. Martyn Geogr. Mag. 2 509 A small fort surrounded by Stoccadoes.
1809 Ann. Reg. 215 In order to protect them against fire ships, stockadoes, raised on piles, were placed 250 fathoms higher up the river.
Compounds
C1. attributive, as stockado rail.
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1760 Brit. Chron. 4 Apr. 326 It seems intended to surround the lawn in St. James's Park with a stoccado rail.
C2.
stockado fort n. ? = stockade fort n. at stockade n. Compounds 2.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > fort or fortified town > [noun] > fortified trading-post
stockade fort1756
stockado fort1766
society > trade and finance > trading place > a centre of commerce > [noun] > trading post > fortified
stockade fort1756
stockado fort1766
1766 W. Stork Acct. E.-Florida 34 Forming a second communication between the stoccata fort..and fort Mosa.
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† stockadov.
Obsolete.
= stockade v.; also with about, round.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > palisade or stockade > [verb (transitive)]
palisade1632
stacket1637
stockado1647
fraise1706
picket1745
stockade1755
zariba1885
1647 J. Sprigge Anglia Rediviva iii. i. 123 Severall Works commanding one another,..being pallizadoed and stockadoed.
1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. i. viii. 160 That back part is stockadoed round with great Trees, set up an [sic] end.
1701 C. Wooley Two Years Jrnl. N.-Y. 70 They fence and stockado their graves about.
1765 R. Rogers Conc. Acct. N. Amer. 246 The Indians..do not neglect to fortify themselves, many of their towns being well stockadoed.
Derivatives
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > palisade or stockade > [adjective]
hurdiseda1500
palisadoed1612
stockadoed1675
stockaded1778
palisaded1793
picketed1885
1675 E. Andross Let. 16 Sept. in F. B. Hough Easton's Narr. Causes Indian War (1858) 75 Where there is not a Block House or some stockadoed or palisadoed House.
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