| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 1. Furnished with, or guarded by, forts; strengthened or defended, as by forts.[Websters]. | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb fort.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (fort) | 1. Gather in, or as if in, a fort, as for protection or defense.[Wordnet]. 2. Enclose by or as if by a fortification.[Wordnet]. 3. Station (troops) in a fort.[Wordnet]. 4. Base verb from the following inflections: forting, forted, forts, forter, forters, fortingly and fortedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "FORTED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1604. (references) |
| Note: Forted \Fort"ed\, adjective. Furnished with, or guarded by, forts; strengthened or defended, as by forts.. (references) |
Specialty Definition: FORTED
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Adjective] Furnished with forts; guarded by forts. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
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Common Expressions: fort
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| 1947 Fort Lauderdale Hurricane | The Fort Lauderdale Hurricane (or Pompano Beach Hurricane or Forgotten Hurricane) was an intense category 5 hurricane that affected Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi in September of 1947. It killed 51 people and caused $110 million (1947 USD) in damage. (references) | ||
| Agra Fort | Agra Fort is located in Agra, India. The fort is also known as Lal Qila, Fort Rouge and Red Fort of Agra. It is about 2.5 km northwest of its much more famous sister monument, the Taj Mahal. The fort can be more accurately described as a walled palatial city. (references) | ||
| Amber Fort | Amber Fort, located in Amber 11 km from Jaipur, Rajasthan state, India, is an example of Rajput architecture. Its construction was commenced by Raja Man Singh, one of the commanders of Akbar’s and belonging to his inner circle of nine courtiers in 1592 and was completed over a period of next 200 years. The Fort, located on a hillside, and built in red sandstone and white marble, overlooks Maotha lake. (references) | ||
| Bahla Fort | Bahla Fort is one of four historic fortresses situated at the foot of the Djebel Akhdar highlands in Oman. Its walls and towers were built in adobe in the 13th and 14th centuries. To the southwest is the Friday Mosque with a 14th-century sculpted mihrab. The fort, which is part of the UN World Heritage List, has been covered with scaffolding and closed to tourists for several decades now. (references) | ||
| Bassein Fort | The Bassein Fort is a fort near Vasai, just north of Mumbai on the mainland just north of the Bombay archipelago. It was established by the Portuguese as the headquarters of their Indian operations in 1534 and centre of their operations until 1739. With this as the main base, they built other smaller forts such as the Castella de Aguada, and strong houses in many of the islands. (references) | ||
| Battle of Fort Anderson | The Battle of Fort Anderson, also known as the Battle of Deep Gully, took place from March 13-15, 1863 in Craven County, North Carolina as part of Confederate Army General James Longstreet's Tidewater operations during the American Civil War. (references) | ||
| Battle of Fort Bute | The Battle of Fort Bute signalled the opening of Spanish intervention in the American Revolutionary War on the side of France and (nominally) the United States. Mustering an ad hoc army of Spanish regulars, Acadian militia, and native levies, Louisiana Governor Bernardo de Gálvez stormed and captured the small British frontier post at Manchac on September 7, 1779. (references) | ||
| Battle of Fort Charlotte | The Battle of Fort Charlotte was a two-week siege conducted by Spanish General Bernardo de Gálvez against the British fortifications guarding present-day Mobile, Alabama during the American Revolutionary War. Fort Charlotte was the last remaining British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans in Spain's neighboring Louisiana colony, and its fall drove the British from the western reaches of West Florida. (references) | ||
| Battle of Fort Cumberland | The Battle of Fort Cumberland resulted in the defeat of an American army trying to invade and inspire rebellion in the British colony of Nova Scotia during the American Revolutionary War. The successful defense of Fort Cumberland in November and December of 1776 allowed British authorities to preserve the territorial integrity of their Maritime possessions. Nova Scotia remained loyal throughout the war. (references) | ||
| Battle of Fort Davidson | The Battle of Fort Davidson or Pilot Knob was the opening engagement of Price's Raid of the American Civil War, occurring on September 27, 1864, in Iron County, Missouri. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: fort
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Bastioned fort | Military | An enclosed earthwork with bastions in the angles to provide fire along the fronts of the connecting curtain walls. (references) | |
| Hold the Fort | Literature | Immortalised as a phrase from its use by General Sherman, who signalled it to General Corse from the top of Kenesaw in 1864. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Osteotomy, Le Fort | Health | A mature polymorphonuclear neutrophil with a vacuole containing lysed nuclear material which has been phagocytized, found in bone marrow and peripheral blood preparations. (references) | |
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