Thesaurus: fort

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1. n. A strong or fortified place; usually, a small fortified place, occupied only by troops, surrounded with a ditch, rampart, and parapet, or with palisades, stockades, or other means of defense; a fortification.
2. n. a fortified military post where troops are stationed
3. n. a fortified defensive structure
4. v. gather in, or as if in, a fort, as for protection or defense
5. v. enclose by or as if by a fortification
6. v. station (troops) in a fort
7. A strong or fortified place; usually, a small fortified place, occupied only by troops, surrounded with a ditch, rampart, and parapet, or with palisades, stockades, or other means of defense; a fortification. Detached works, depending solely on their own strength, belong to the class of works termed forts. Farrow.
8. A strong or fortified place; usually, a small fortified place,occupied only by troops, surrounded with a ditch, rampart, andparapet, or with palisades, stockades, or other means of defense; afortification.Detached works, depending solely on their own strength, belong to theclass of works termed forts. Farrow.
9. n:100 v. gather in, or as if in, a fort, as for protection or defense v. station (troops) in a fort