stockade (stokad)

[Formerly also stock a do, stoccade; bank ment. stockade (sto-kād'), v. t.; pret. and pp. stock aded, ppr. stockading. [Formerly also stock a do, stoccade; On the back of the Hill, the Land being naturally low, there is a very large Moat cut from the Sea to the River, which makes the whole an Island; and that back part is stockadoed round with great Trees, set up an end. Dampier , Voyages, II. i. 160. stock a doł (sto-kāʼdō), n. 1. Same as stoccade . Robrus, who, addict to nimble fence, Still greets me with stock a do's violence. 2. Same as stockade . Marston, Satires, i. 132. IMG:content-2162.png:[blocks in formation] 3. To put in the stocks as a punishment; hence, stock-board (stok'bord), n. to confine; imprison. Rather deye I wolde and determine, As thynketh me now, stokked in prisone, In wrechedne e, in filthe and in vermyne. Chaucer, Troilus, iii. 380. They suffered great hardships for this their love and good-will, being often stocked , stoned, beaten, whipped, and imprisoned. Penn , Rise and Progre of Quakers, v. 4. To lay up in store; accumulate for future use: as, to stock goods. Scott, Quentin Durward, xviii.-5. To provide or supply with stock. (a) To supply with a stock of goods; store with commodities; store with anything: as, to stock a warehouse. Our Author, to divert his Friends to Day, Stocks with Variety of Fools his Play. Steele, Tender Husband, Prol. The bazaars were crowded with people, and stocked with all manner of eastern delicacies. R. F. Burton, El-Medinah, p. 419. (b) To supply with cattle, sheep, etc., or, in some uses, to supply with domestic animals, implements, etc.: as, to stock a farm. He has bought the great farm,... And stock'd it like an emperor. Fletcher (and another ?), Prophete , v. 2. ing, a board over which the mold is pa ed, and which forms the bottom of the mold in molding. -2. In organ - building, the upper board of a wind-chest.