Meanings
verblilt up (third-person singular simple present lilts up, present participle lilting up, simple past and past participle lilted up)
present singular third person lilts up · participle present lilting up · participle past lilted up · past lilted up
- transitiveTo start playing (music); to strike up (a tune, song, etc.).
"[A]nd divil be in Tim, when he h'ard it but he lilts up the 'Priest in his Boots;' and, God forgive us, we all burst out laughin', for shure who could hilp it, if it was the bishop himsilf?"
1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 518
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