stockade
noun
[ stɒˈkeɪd ]
• a barrier formed from upright wooden posts or stakes, especially as a defence against attack or as a means of confining animals.
• "they built stockades around their towns"
stockade
verb
• enclose (an area) by erecting a stockade.
• "they fortified themselves strongly and stockaded the city"
Origin:
early 17th century: shortening of obsolete French estocade, alteration of estacade, from Spanish estacada, from the Germanic base of the noun stake1.
