a line of stout posts set firmly to form a defense; an enclosure or pen made with posts and stakes; an enclosure in which prisoners are kept
A stockade is a wall of large wooden posts built around an area to keep out enemies or wild animals. the inner stockade. a fence built from long thick pieces of wood pushed into the ground, used to defend a place (estacada, from estaca )
A line of stout posts or timbers set firmly in the earth in contact with each other (and usually with loopholes) to form a barrier, or defensive fortification