fort up

present singular third person forts up · participle present forting up · participle past forted up · past forted up

1. informaltransitiveTo 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