fort up

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fort up

verb forts up · forting up · forted up

informal, transitive To fortify (a place); to convert into a fort. 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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@misc{fort_up_2026,
  title = {fort up},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fort%20up},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}