Word Meanings - STOCKADE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

• Stoutly
  In a stout manner; lustily; boldly; obstinately; as, he stoutly defended himself.
• Earthdrake
  A mythical monster of the early Anglo-Saxon literature; a dragon.
• Earth shine
  See Earth light, under Earth.
• Otherways
  See Otherwise.
• Otherwhere
  In or to some other place, or places; elsewhere.
• Stoutness
  The state or quality of being stout.
• Earthen
  Made of earth; made of burnt or baked clay, or other like substances; as, an earthen vessel or pipe.
• Earthshock
  An earthquake.
• Otherwhile
  Alt. of Otherwhiles
• EARTHENHEARTED
  Hard-hearted; sordid; gross. [Poetic] Lowell.
• Earthen-hearted
  Hard-hearted; sordid; gross.
• Earthstar
  A curious fungus of the genus Geaster, in which the outer coating splits into the shape of a star, and the inner one forms a ball containing the dustlike spores.
• Otherwhiles
  At another time, or other times; sometimes; /ccasionally.
• EARTHFLAX
  A variety of asbestus. See Amianthus.
• Earthenware
  Vessels and other utensils, ornaments, or the like, made of baked clay. See Crockery, Pottery, Stoneware, and Porcelain.
• Earth-tongue
  A fungus of the genus Geoglossum.
• Otherwise
  In a different manner; in another way, or in other ways; differently; contrarily.
• EARTHLIGHT
  The sunlight reflected from the earth to the moon, by which we see faintly, when the moon is near the sun (either before or after new moon), that part of the moon's disk unillumined by direct sunlight, or "the old moon in the arms of the new."

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