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stockade

noun
🔊/stɒˈkeɪd/
🔊/stɑːˈkeɪd/
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  1. a line or wall of strong wooden posts built to defend a place（防御用的）栅栏，围桩
    Word 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.