Obs. Forms: 7 stocado, 7–8 stoccado, stoccata, 7, 9 stockado. [Altered form of STACCADO, as if f. STOCK sb.1 Cf. STOCKADE sb.] = STOCKADE sb. 1.
[1589. P. Ive, Fortif., 38. Place in the riuer … a stackado of great piles to keepe an enemy out.]
1609. E. Grimestone, Gen. Hist. Netherl., XII. 878. They of Antuerpe made new engines to breake and burne the bridge and Stocadoes [orig. F. les estocades] which the prince of Parma had made.
1615. Heywood, Foure Prentises, I. Wks. 1874, II. 242. Stockadoes, Palizadoes, stop their waters.
1638. R. Baker, trans. Balzac’s Lett. (vol. II.), 204. A simple Captaine of Holland, who talkes nothing but Stoccadoes; and Circumvallation.
1783. W. F. Martyn, Geog. Mag., II. 509. A small fort surrounded by Stoccadoes.
1809. Ann. Reg., 215. In order to protect them against fire ships, stockadoes, raised on piles, were placed 250 fathoms higher up the river.
b. attrib., as stockado rail; stockado fort ? = stockade fort (see STOCKADE sb. 3).
1760. Brit. Chron., 4 April, 326. It seems intended to surround the lawn in St. James’s Park with a stoccado rail.
1766. Stork, Acc. E. Florida, 34. Forming a second communication between the stoccata fort … and fort Mosa.
