meaning of stockade
1.  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. 
2.  An inclosure, or pen, made with posts and stakes. 
3.  To surround, fortify, or protect with a stockade. 
4.  a penal camp where political prisoners or prisoners of war are confined usually under harsh conditions
						 
