Imperial Palace Moat ( Courtesy by: rseghers.com)
Stockade: enclosure
A) moat: bridge
B) doorway: wall
C) brick: building
D) pillar : support
E) keynote: lock
(Asked by Charu Pandeya,Varanasi, Student at AchieversPoint.com, New Delhi )
Stockade (Courtesy by: www2.gol.com)
D
i think its B) not sure at allll..
cos a stockade is an opening to an enclosure…doorway an openin g to a wall..//?
Hi Niharika,
What is your logic… ??
stockade acts as a enclosure and pillar acts as a support.
answer is D)option
plz tellthe answer
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Stockade acts as a protecting fence or enclosure which protects,
Pillor acts as a support from pillage or attack.
answer……………
A moat: bridge
A stockade is an enclosure of palisades and tall walls made of logs placed side by side vertically with the tops sharpened to provide some security.
Stockade fortifications were simple forms of defense of military camps or settlements, used since ancient Roman times and earlier. The troops or settlers would build a stockade by clearing a space of woodland and using the trees whole or chopped in half, with one end sharpened on each. They would dig a narrow trench around the area, and stand the sharpened logs side-by-side inside it, encircling the perimeter. Sometimes they would add additional defense by placing punji sticks in a shallow secondary trench outside the stockade. In colder regions, sometimes the stockade received a coating of clay or mud that would make the crude wall wind-proof.
Builders could also place stones or thick mud layers at the foot of the stockade, improving the resistance of the wall. From that the defenders could, if they had the materials, raise a stone or brick wall inside the stockade, creating a more permanent defense while working protected.
Stockade walls are used as garden fencing in modern days, made of finished planks more useful for privacy and decoration than security.
The word stockade also refers to a jail in an army camp, a crude prison camp, or even a slave camp. In this case, the stockade keeps people inside, rather than out. (Source: wikipedia.org)
Moats (also known as fosses) were deep and wide water-filled ditches, excavated to provide a barrier against attack upon castle ramparts or other fortifications. A moat made access to the walls difficult for siege weapons, such as a siege tower or battering ram, that needed to be brought up against a wall to be effective. A very important feature was that a water-filled moat made very difficult the practice of sapping or undermining, that is to say digging tunnels under the fortifications in order to effect a collapse of the defenses.
The word was adapted in Middle English from the French motte “mound, hillock” and was first applied to the central mound on which a fortification was erected (see Motte and bailey), and then came to be applied to the excavated ring, a “dry moat”. The term moat is also applied to natural formations reminiscent of the artificial structure.
In the violent conditions of the 14th and 15th centuries in England, though defensive walling required a charter from the king, a moat round a manor house could deter all but the most determined intruders.
Often streams were diverted in the Middle Ages to fill the ditch. Moats required upkeep. They had to be dredged for debris which could potentially form a traversable bridge from one side to another.
Withdrawable bridges spanned moats in the Middle Ages. At first they were only simple wooden bridges that could easily be dismantled if an enemy was about to breach the fortifications. Later flying bridges and drawbridges were used for moat spans. Moats sometimes had long wooden spikes in them, to prevent enemies from swimming across. The practice of stocking them with crocodiles, alligators or other dangerous animals is almost certainly a myth, however. ( Courtesy: wikipedia.org)
Correct answer is A.
Only Dale came with the correct answer. Congrates !!!!
moderator! can u plz give out the bridge..which says the answer is A
moderator! can u plz give out the bridge..which says the answer is A—- ?? Sorry can you elaborate the question ?
how did u arrive at the answer dale?
can u please explain … i could not get it..
i m confused, can anybody explain me in a simple way, what is the ans?
ans should be D, not A.
because originally, the moat is a deep ditch made for the purpose of defence.after some process, it was made able to be used as a traversable bridge.so, stockede is 1 type of the enclosure, that is definite. but, moat can’t be considered as a bridge all time.moat can be made as a bridge.
pillar is 1 type of support, that is also definite.
so, it is clear that ans. is D.
even i agree with Tejas
the answer should be D
stockade is a kind of barrier and pillar is a kind of support
the explanation given by ‘Take GRE Team’ is not clear
plz explain it in a better way if you know that the answer is A
GRe team..we’r not really clear with the answer…how does the
moat-bridge realtion correspond to stockede-enclosure relation??