stockade
noun/stɒˈkeɪd/
/stɑːˈkeɪd/
- a line or wall of strong wooden posts built to defend a placeWord Originearly 17th cent.: shortening of obsolete French estocade, alteration of estacade, from Spanish estacada, from the Germanic base of the noun stake senses 1 and 2.
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