The Collaborative International Dictionary
Forted \Fort"ed\, a.
Furnished with, or guarded by, forts; strengthened or
defended, as by forts. [R.]
--Shak.
Wiktionary
Ensconced in or protected by a fort. v
(en-past of: fort)
Usage examples of "forted".
The agency guns around Anadarko are forted up and ready for the red rascals, of course.
Gates had profited by my advice and they had forted up, and had done a better job than I'd expected, for they had gone back to the edge of the brush near a buffalo wallow and had dug sod to build a parapet.
When we'd forted up they left it to me to scare up some fresh meat as we planned to live off the country and stretch our store-bought rations.
In order to reach a Roman army forted up in the fork itself, Roman supply vessels would have to run a gauntlet of enemy fire from the west bank of the Indus.