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Ported vs Forted - What's the difference?

ported | forted |

As verbs the difference between ported and forted

is that ported is (port) while forted is (fort).

As adjectives the difference between ported and forted

is that ported is (obsolete) having gates while forted is ensconced in or protected by a fort.

ported

English

Verb

(head)
  • (port)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Having gates.
    • We took the sevenfold-ported Thebes. — Chapman.
    (Webster 1913)

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    forted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (fort)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Ensconced in or protected by a fort.
  • * 1834 , David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of , Nebraska 1987, p. 104:
    • The fort was built right in the middle of a large old field, and in it the people had been forted so long and so quietly, that they didn't apprehend any danger at all, and had, therefore, become quite careless.