Stockading [verb]
Definition of Stockading:
confine; put in jail
Synonyms of Stockading:
● Incarcerate
● Apprehend
● Detain
● Jail
● Commit
● Hold
● Nab
● Constrain
● Closet
● Immure
● Ice
● Keep
● Trammel
● Intern
● Restrain
● Stockade
● Pen
● Circumscribe
● Curb
● Limit
● Cage
● Check
● Occlude
● Impound
● Bottle up
● Put away
● Remand
● Lock up
● Bastille
● Fence in
● Hold captive
● Hold hostage
● Hold in custody
● Keep captive
● Keep in custody
● Lock in
● Put behind bars
● Rail in
● Send to prison
● Send up
● Shut in
● Take prisoner
Opposite/Antonyms of Stockading:
● Allow
● Help
● Stop
● Let go
● Free
● Permit
● Assist
● Aid
● Cease
● Liberate
● Release
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.