vergattern

Etymology 1
From, a chiefly Central German word alongside 🇨🇬. Cognate to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. In a military context the word originally meant “to line up troops and issue the orders”. It may later have been associated with, thus “to give someone a boundary that must not be transgressed”. Compare etymology 2 below.

Verb

 * 1)  to officially commit a soldier to sentry duty and to the respective regulations
 * 2)  to impose a duty or punishment on someone
 * 1)  to impose a duty or punishment on someone

Etymology 2
From, derived from , whence modern. The modern verb form without umlaut was derived through adaptation to the noun.

Verb

 * 1)  to barricade; to separate with a grating or fence