Stockade
[stɒ'keɪd] or [stɑ'ked]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) fortification consisting of a fence made of a line of stout posts set firmly for defense.
(verb.) surround with a stockade in order to fortify.
唐纳德錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) A line of stout posts or timbers set firmly in the earth in contact with each other (and usually with loopholes) to form a barrier, or defensive fortification.
(v. t.) An inclosure, or pen, made with posts and stakes.
(v. t.) To surround, fortify, or protect with a stockade.
校對:西尔玛
解釋/意思:
n. a breastwork formed of stakes fixed in the ground.—v.t. to fortify with such.
海因里希錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- Some of his men had snatched a flag from the parapet of the fort, and others had taken a horse from the inside of the stockade. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- A double stockade, or palisade, composed of pointed beams, which the adjacent forest supplied, defended the outer and inner bank of the trench. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The mules were first driven into a stockade, called a corral, inclosing an acre or more of ground. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- There was an entrance from the west through the outer stockade, which communicated by a drawbridge, with a similar opening in the interior defences. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
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