[f. STOCKADE sb.] trans. To protect or fortify with a stockade. Also with advs. in, off, round.
1755. T. Forbes, in C. Gist’s Jrnls. (1893), 150. This Fort was composed of four Houses built by way of Bastions and the intermediate Space stockaded.
1775. Adair, Amer. Ind., 183. Having placed the dead on a high scaffold stockaded round.
1811. Wellington, in Gurw., Disp. (1838), VII. 413. The breach at Badajoz can scarcely be more than stockaded.
1855. Kingsley, Westw. Ho! xxi. We must … stockade a camp, and get our sick and provisions thither.
1864. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., XVI. xiv. IV. 474. Who landed, accordingly, on that rough shore; [and] stockaded themselves in.
1893. Selous, Trav. S. E. Africa, 297. João’s town was well built and very strongly stockaded.
1897. Mary Kingsley, W. Africa, 148. A sweetly amicable style for factories, who as a rule firmly stockade themselves off from their next door neighbours.
Hence Stockading vbl. sb., the action of the verb; also, concr. stockade-work.
1855. Kingsley, Westw. Ho! xxi. I know nought about stockading; but Sir Francis would have given the same counsel.
1881. Mrs. C. Praed, Policy & P., I. 59. Rough stockading … divided the settlers’ paddocks from the road.
1897. Henty, On the Irrawaddy, 175. Even the women had been compelled to labour in the work of stockading.
