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fort up en · VERB
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(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.
2006, David Taylor, Pride of Place: A Contemporary Anthology of Texas Nature Writing, page 55:
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