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Definition of Fort up

1. Verb. Gather in, or as if in, a fort, as for protection or defense.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fort Up

Literary usage of Fort up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Frémont and '49: The Story of a Remarkable Career and Its Relation to the by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh (1914)
"... Wants California—Mexico Moving for War —The Third Fremont Expedition—Captain Fremont in the Secrets— Off to Bent's Fort—Up the Arkansas—Over the Wasatch ..."

2. The American Metropolis: From Knickerbocker Days to the Present Time; New by Frank Moss (1897)
"... the Fort—Up the West Side—Immigrants —Strange Faces and Tongues—Turks, Syrians and Arabians—Old Time Gangs—Produce Merchants—Washington Market—Restful, ..."

3. Crags and Craters: Ramblers in the Island of Réunion by William Dudley Oliver (1896)
"... Possession—Old Fort—Up the gorge of the Biviere des Galets—Mafate— Landslips—Sulphur springs—Mafate and Moffat—The noise of waters—Back to Hell-Bourg. ..."

4. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"W. Irving, ' Captain Bonne- Fort, fort up. To fortify oneself. 1559, 1566, 1572, NED 1704 She was in a ... Washington,' Writings ' time has come to fort up. ..."

5. Early Settlers and Indian Fighters of Southwest Texas by Andrew Jackson Sowell (1900)
"There was great excitement in Castroville, and Castro told all the people to come to his place and fort up. Wagons were driven across the streets on both ..."

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