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"A stockade. Those settlers who lived outside of Roston and the few seaport villages built palisades about their houses and farm buildings. A group of buildings thus protected was called a stockade."—Scudder, 1897

stockade

"A stockade. Those settlers who lived outside of Roston and the few seaport villages built palisades…

A line of posts or stakes set in the earth as a fence or barrier.

Stockade

A line of posts or stakes set in the earth as a fence or barrier.