(v. t.) A line of stout posts or timbers set firmly in the earth in contact with each other (and usually with loopholes) to form a barrier, or defensive fortification.
(v. t.) An inclosure, or pen, made with posts and stakes.
(v. t.) To surround, fortify, or protect with a stockade.
Example Sentences:
(1) It’s also great that we live in a world where people are free to be this incorrect without being hurled into stockades and mocked mercilessly as blithering idiots.
(2) The Creggan was famous for decades as the largest housing estate in the republican heartland of "Free Derry", one-time stockade of the IRA and Irish National Liberation Army (INLA).
(3) Yes, Corbyn said that he and the party must “above all” talk to those beyond the tribal stockade and “reach out” to the broader electorate.
(4) For example, an article in the New Scientist claimed the "statistical stockade which has been erected to protect the policy of badger slaughter would embarrass an innumerate recruit to a kindergarten".
(5) She was born Hamburg in 1954, moved to eastern Germany as a small child, grew up behind a Soviet stockade and trained as a quantum chemist.
(6) White officers who didn't offer lifts to black marines were attacked, there was a major riot at the principal military prison, the Long Binh Stockade, in October 1968, and a critical inter-racial clash on the Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier in October 1972.
Tambour
Definition:
(n.) A kind of small flat drum; a tambourine.
(n.) A small frame, commonly circular, and somewhat resembling a tambourine, used for stretching, and firmly holding, a portion of cloth that is to be embroidered; also, the embroidery done upon such a frame; -- called also, in the latter sense, tambour work.
(n.) Same as Drum, n., 2(d).
(n.) A work usually in the form of a redan, to inclose a space before a door or staircase, or at the gorge of a larger work. It is arranged like a stockade.
(n.) A shallow metallic cup or drum, with a thin elastic membrane supporting a writing lever. Two or more of these are connected by an India rubber tube, and used to transmit and register the movements of the pulse or of any pulsating artery.
(v. t.) To embroider on a tambour.
Example Sentences:
(1) A method for continuous registration of perfusion rate of frog blood vessels has been developed utilizing a modified Marey's tambour with lever system, connected to the perfusion bottle.
(2) Flight Out of Egypt has a huge crowd of figures at what seems like a desert oasis – to the left there is a rhythmic forest of plumed lances held by horsemen and camel riders, to the right tents and groups of Arabs (including a tambour dancer based on an image at Pompeii).
(3) Intracranial pressure sensors and subdural and subgaleal sensing tambours were used to measure the pressure difference between the intracranial and subgaleal spaces in two monkeys.
(4) Redesign to decrease tambour permeability should allow a useful life of months or years.
(5) Autopsy findings confirmed that the sensing tambours became encapsulated with a pseudomembrane that did not attenuate the pressure signal.