Forty

Forty: adjective. Pertaining to forts or bearing some resemblance to anything that has something to do with them. A man who looks like a soldier who currently resides in a fort may, therefore, be called forty because of this rather vague definition. However, the word is more commonly used in association with houses that look just a little too bulky and well protected to pass off for normal houses. This has been the case in a court ruling in Britain that ordered a man to pay extra fort taxes for his house featuring a moat with crocodiles and a device that at opening the front door fired a cannon ball at the visitor.