stockades (Meaning)
stockades
a line of stout posts set firmly to form a defense, an enclosure or pen made with posts and stakes, to fortify or surround with a stockade, an enclosure in which prisoners are kept, to protect or surround with a stockade
Synonyms & Antonyms of stockades
Synonyms:
- joints
- glasshouses
- guardhouses
- quods
- blocks
- reform schools
- slams
- labor camps
- reformatories
- holes
- cells
- oubliettes
- hulks
- slammers
- bastilles
- stirs
- concentration camps
- nicks
- calabooses
- tolbooths
- cans
- jailhouses
- clinks
- holds
- keeps
- wards
- bull pens
- hoosegows
- gulags
- work camps
- prison camps
- bridewells
Antonyms:
No weak antonyms found.
FAQs About the word stockades
a line of stout posts set firmly to form a defense, an enclosure or pen made with posts and stakes, to fortify or surround with a stockade, an enclosure in whic
prisons,jails, penitentiaries, tanks, dungeons, guardrooms, coolers,brigs, coops, pens
outsides,,
The prisoners were held captive within the towering stockades that surrounded the prison.
The villagers erected a barricade of sharpened logs, forming a formidable stockade to protect their settlement.
The soldiers retreated behind the stockades, preparing for the impending attack.
The wooden stockades creaked and groaned under the weight of the enemy's assault.
