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stacket

/ˈstækɪt/

stacket noun: a stockade.

Noun

stacket (plural stackets)

  1. (Scotland, obsolete) A stockade.
    • Also, I would advise you to fortify the said sconce, not only by a foussie, or graffe, but also by certain stackets, or palisades. […] The whilk stackets or palisades should be artificially framed with re-entering angles and loop-holes, or crenelles, for musquetry, whereof it shall arise that the...1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter II, in Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume IV (A Legend of Montrose), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for...

Forms of stacket

pluralstackets

Origin of stacket

Compare French estacade and English stockade.

Questions about stacket

What does stacket mean?
Stacket means a stockade.
What part of speech is stacket?
Stacket is a noun.
How do you pronounce stacket?
Stacket is pronounced /ˈstækɪt/.
What is the plural of stacket?
The plural of stacket is stackets.

Words near stacket in the dictionary

  1. stackenclouds
  2. stacker
  3. stacker crane
  4. stacker crane problem
  5. stackers
  6. stacket
  7. stacketh
  8. stackets
  9. stackframe
  10. stackframes
  11. stackfreed

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