Other forms: stockades
A stockade is a fence of upright posts built for defence. Build a stockade, behind the stockade, a wooden stockade.
It is the simplest fortification there is and needs only trees and labour, which is why it appears wherever people arrive somewhere and expect trouble. In American usage a stockade is also a military prison. The word came through French from stock, a post.
1nounstockadeA fence of upright posts built for defence.
“The settlers built a wooden stockade around their village to keep out attackers.”
stockade is a fortification.
French estocade comes from a Germanic word for a post or stake, the same root as stock.
French
estocade
English, today
stockade
From French estocade, equivalent to stock + ade.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA