Meanings of high stockade in anglès

There was a high stockade fence about the whole plant.

Around the fort, which was armed with cannon bought from the Russians, he built a high stockade.

The place was merely a high stockade with blockhouses at the angles, and a gate opening toward the river.

The home of the planter is a wooden house with rough-hewn beams and unplaned boards, surrounded by a high stockade.

A high stockade of posts and wattle shut off the view, but over it could be distinguished a thatched roof.

Indeed, once one passed within the high stockade and abatis, there were hardly any reminders of the long war at all.

Mr. Vannini, however, evidently thinks it safer to erect a high stockade around his house and the huts of the soldiers.

But the gate was barred within, and as the high stockade was slippery with ice, for some days the mystery remained unsolved.

Close to this building the men constructed their huts, and, finally, the whole settlement had another high stockade carried completely around it.

A small, low structure surrounded by a high stockade fence was all, and yet it did not seem unworthy of its fame.

Mrs. Schoolcraft, since the assassination of her husband, has come to live in the fort, which consists of barracks protected by a high stockade.

In early times, if the village was on the frontier or exposed to Indian attack it was guarded by blockhouses surrounded by a high stockade.