stockade

noun

stä-ˈkād How to pronounce stockade (audio)
Definition of stockadenext
as in penitentiary
a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody prisoners of war confined in a stockade

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Recent Examples of stockade The Rufus Putnam House was part of the original stockade. — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 15 July 2024 Some suggest the logs' close location means they were used as a type of stockade. — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 15 July 2024 Trantalis predicts the stockade will end up opening its doors to the homeless one way or another. — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 27 June 2024 Those posts formed the outline of the stockade that, at one time, may have housed some 1,200 British prisoners of war. — The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2024 See All Example Sentences for stockade
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  1. penitentiary
  2. jail
  3. prison
  4. brig
Noun
  • The complaints at Lee mirror accounts from what was then a federal penitentiary, USP Thomson in Illinois, especially the overuse of four-point restraints.
    — Christie Thompson, NPR, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Lamberth also noted that there are only about 16 transgender women housed in female penitentiaries, including the three plaintiffs who sued.
    — Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
Definition of penitentiary
Noun
  • Two days later, nightclub owner Jack Ruby fatally shot Oswald during a jail transfer.
    — arkansasonline.com, arkansasonline.com, 20 Mar. 2025
  • As Ortega is held at a Rikers Island jail pending his next court appearance, police are still working to track down his machete-wielding partner in crime and are asking for the public’s help in identifying him.
    — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 20 Mar. 2025
Definition of jail
Noun
  • Three days later, his immigration attorney was able to reach an ICE official who confirmed that his client was in a prison in another country.
    — Brian Bennett, TIME, 21 Mar. 2025
  • One of the five men convicted in the 2022 drugging and robbery of patrons at gay bars in Manhattan was slapped with eight years in prison on Thursday.
    — Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 20 Mar. 2025
Definition of prison
Noun
  • Even if one of the arriving Republic cruisers is probably about to scoop him up and throw him into a proper brig.
    — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Meanwhile, any question that Jod and Captain Silvo (the pirate whose crew mutinied in the series premiere) are one and the same was dismissed, when Brutus and his crew spoke of how Silvo had escaped the brig before facing a trial.
    — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of brig

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