Meanings
alternative uppulled
- not comparablePulled up.
Her handsome leg was exposed by the up-pulled hem of her torn tunic.
2017, Gardner Fox, Jeffrey K. Gardner, Cleopatra1 more example
[…] Mr. Lawson turned to refasten an up-pulled tent-peg, and to get a cord, and when he turned round again, the mulatto was gone.
1869, Edward Howe, The boy in the bush, page 228 - not comparableUprooted.
A sympathetic youngster two or three years her senior thereupon came over, and, after persuading her to stop crying, showed her how to bury the roots of the up-pulled sprouts so that they would continue in their growth.
1911, Arthur Hastings Grant, Harold Sinley Buttenheim, The American City, volume 4, page 187
Origin
- Middle Englishuppuld
- Englishup-pulled
From Middle English uppuld, equivalent to up- + pulled.
More words from Middle English
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