fort up

English

Verb

fort up (third-person singular simple present forts up, present participle forting up, simple past and past participle forted up)

  1. (transitive, informal) To fortify (a place); to convert into a fort.
    • 2006, David Taylor, Pride of Place: A Contemporary Anthology of Texas Nature Writing (page 55)
      They had forted up their house, cutting the bottom-land timbers, lopping off their limbs, and driving the tree trunks into the ground topwise, to make a stockade big enough to hold them and some neighbors — the ones willing to stay there.
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