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A wall of sharpened logs that turned forests into fortresses one pointed trunk at a time.
means A defensive barrier or enclosure made of upright wooden posts or stakes, often used to protect a settlement or to confine prisoners.
from From the Spanish 'estacada,' meaning a fence of stakes, built on 'estaca' (a stake or post) — itself of Germanic origin, a cousin of English 'stake.' English borrowed the word and reshaped it, the 'est-' softening toward 'stock,' the homely word for a tree trunk or wooden post — fitting, since a stockade was nothing but a row of trunks driven into the earth and sharpened skyward.
- name origin
- From Spanish estacada, meaning a place of stakes
- colonial staple
- Guarded frontier forts across early America
- double meaning
- Also slang for a military prison cell
- build method
- Logs driven upright, points aimed at attackers
- old defense
- Used since ancient Greek and Roman camps
andersonville prison — american civil war prison in georgia that held 45,000+ union soldiers, 13,000 died there 1864-1865
fort jefferson stockade — 19th-century military prison in florida keys where dr. samuel mudd was imprisoned after lincoln assassination