1610s, "a barrier of stakes," a nativization of Spanish estacada, from estaca "stake," from a Germanic source cognate with Old English staca, see stake (n.1)). Meaning "military prison" first recorded 1865. As a verb from 1755.
stoa
stoat
stochastic
stock
stock market
stockade
stock-broker
stock-car
stock-holder
Stockholm
stockinet