fort

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The dogs ran the sled briskly into the centre of the fort, and lay down panting on the snow, while the two men approached the hall Tis a packet," cried Stanley, forgetting for the moment his sorrow in the excitement of this unexpected arrival In a moment all the men at the fort were assembled in the square A packet!

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  1. noun A fortified place or position stationed with troops.
  2. noun A permanent army post.

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  • The dogs ran the sled briskly into the centre of the fort, and lay down panting on the snow, while the two men approached the hall Tis a packet," cried Stanley, forgetting for the moment his sorrow in the excitement of this unexpected arrival In a moment all the men at the fort were assembled in the square A packet! —  Ungava
  • At first Steele refused to obey, maintaining that the fort was the rightful possession of the duke of Courland. —  The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919
  • But the best gun in the fort is a fine new eleven-inch gun, which had just been fished up from the wreck of the Keokuk; the sister gun from the same wreck is at The garrison consists of 350 enlisted soldiers under Colonel Rhett. —  Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863
  • The last man to leave the fort was the chief, Sa-hei-ta. —  South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure
  • At each corner of the fort was a "lookout tower,"--a little box of a place, stuck out from the top of the wall, with loopholes and a long, narrow passage leading to it, with a high wall on each side to protect from bullets and arrows the man who went to look out. —  A Jolly Fellowship
 

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  1. Middle English, strength, stronghold, from Old French, strong, strength, from Latin fortis; see bhergh-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. I. adjective from Middle English *fort from OF.fort, F, fort = Provencal fort = Spanish fuerte = Portuguese Italian forte, from Latin fortis, Old Latin forctis, forctus, strong, powerful; whence perhaps hortari, encourage, exhort: see hortation, exhort, etc. II. n. Not in Middle English; = D. G. Danish Swedish fort, from French fort, Old French fort = Provencal fort = Spanish fuerte = Portuguese Italian forte, from Middle Latin fortis, a fort, fortified structure, stronghold; properly adjective, strong (sc. domus, locus, etc.): see I., and cf. fortalice, fortress, force, etc. Hence (from Latin fortis) force, afforce, enforce, etc.
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