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stockade (n.)
1610s, "a barrier of stakes," a nativization of Spanish
estacada
, from
estaca
"stake," from a Germanic source cognate with Old English
staca
, see
stake
(n.1)). Meaning "military prison" first recorded 1865. As a verb from 1755.
