Stockading [verb]
Definition of Stockading:
confine; put in jail
Synonyms of Stockading:
● Detain
● Jail
● Commit
● Hold
● Nab
● Closet
● Immure
● Ice
● Keep
● Trammel
● Intern
● Restrain
● Stockade
● Pen
● Curb
● Limit
● Cage
● Check
● Occlude
● Impound
● Put away
● Remand
● Lock up
● Bastille
● Fence in
● Lock in
● Rail in
● Send up
● Shut in
Opposite/Antonyms of Stockading:
Sentence/Example of Stockading:
The red flames gathered brightness every moment, lighting up two sides of the stockading, in the midst of which the hall stood.
The night was very dark, and the wind howled and sang through the stockading, and none seemed to be about the place.
The rest of the army were armed with swords and spears, and carried implements for stockading and entrenching.
Even the women had been compelled to labour in the work of stockading, and the sufferings of all had been terrible.
It is due to the soil of North Carolina to say that if there was one easy thing about stockading it was this same digging holes.