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- a barrier formed from upright wooden posts or stakes, especially as a defence against attack or as a means of confining animals（防止攻击的）围桩; （关动物的）栅栏。
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- an enclosure bound by such a barrier（用栅栏）围起的一块地方, 围场：
we got ashore and into the stockade.
我们上了岸并进入了一个用栅栏围起来的地方。
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- chiefly N. Amer. a military prison〈主北美〉军事监狱。
词源
early 17th cent.: shortening of obsolete French estocade, alteration of estacade, from Spanish estacada, from the Germanic base of the noun STAKE1 .