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 ■an enclosure bound by a stockade (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。 ■(chiefly N. Amer.)a military prison (主北美)军事监狱
verb
[with obj.][usu. as adj. stockaded]enclose (an area) by erecting such a barrier 用栅栏围住
语源
early 17th cent.: shortening of obsolete French estocade, alteration of estacade, from Spanish estacada, from the Germanic base of the noun stake