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  • adjective Resembling or characteristic of a fort.

Etymologies

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fort +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Rapier, Astro, and Zoe had moved to a little fortlike structure at the top of the staircase immediately behind the dock, and from there they managed the two winches, unspooling the cables that would prevent the canoes from going over the edge—always careful to keep the long swooping cables above the lava.

    THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010

  • Rapier, Astro, and Zoe had moved to a little fortlike structure at the top of the staircase immediately behind the dock, and from there they managed the two winches, unspooling the cables that would prevent the canoes from going over the edge—always careful to keep the long swooping cables above the lava.

    THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010

  • Rapier, Astro, and Zoe had moved to a little fortlike structure at the top of the staircase immediately behind the dock, and from there they managed the two winches, unspooling the cables that would prevent the canoes from going over the edge—always careful to keep the long swooping cables above the lava.

    THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010

  • It's sort of a fortlike structure, and certainly sometimes the administration seems to be more ready for a seige than for open communication.

    More Hating Meetings Bardiac 2009

  • It's sort of a fortlike structure, and certainly sometimes the administration seems to be more ready for a seige than for open communication.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Bardiac 2009

  • The board room of H & H was on the second floor of a large, fortlike building that stood at the comer of Fort and Merchant, and from this combination of facts the powerful clique that ran Hawaii came to be known simply as The Fort.

    Hawaii Michener, James 1959

  • These Indians had rushed from the security of the fortlike storehouse upon the first intimation of danger to protect the defenseless quartet in the cottage -- the three women and the wounded, helpless man.

    The Gun-Brand 1921

  • She had entered a door that opened in the wall directly beneath the fortlike second story, and it was upon this door that Harlan's gaze was fixed.

    'Drag' Harlan Charles Alden Seltzer 1908

  • The walls connecting the fortlike section in the rear with the two-story front were about ten feet in height, with few windows; and the entire structure was built in a huge square, with an inner court, or _patio_, reached by an entrance that penetrated the lower center of the two-story section in front.

    'Drag' Harlan Charles Alden Seltzer 1908

  • Up at the fortlike structure, Zoe watched as the tiny figure of Wolf stood in his canoe and reached up toward the inverted pyramid’s peak.

    THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010

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