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stoccade

stoccade is the archaic form of stockade.

stoccade is the archaic form of stoccado.

Meaning of stockade

Noun

stockade (plural stockades)

  1. An enclosure protected by a wall of wooden posts.
  2. (colloquial) A military prison.

See all 3 meanings of stockade

Meaning of stoccado

Noun

stoccado (plural stoccados or stoccadoes)

  1. (obsolete) A stab with a pointed weapon.
    • [William] Page. I haue heard the French-man hath good skill in his Rapier. / [Robert] Shal[low] Tut ſir: I could haue told you more: In theſe times you ſtand on diſtance: your Paſſes, Stoccado’s, and I knovv not vvhat: […]c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Forms of stoccade

Noun
pluralstoccades
Verb
third-person singular presentstoccades
present participlestoccading
past participlestoccaded
paststoccaded

Questions about stoccade

What is stoccade the archaic form of?
Stoccade is the archaic form of stockade.

Words near stoccade in the dictionary

  1. Stobo
  2. stobs
  3. Stobswood
  4. stocah
  5. stocahs
  6. stoccade
  7. stoccaded
  8. stoccades
  9. stoccading
  10. stoccado
  11. stoccadoes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stoccade (page history and authors); stockade (page history and authors); stoccado (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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