upput

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verb

To put up; to erect; to raise.

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Meanings

verbupput (third-person singular simple present upputs, present participle upputting, simple past and past participle upput)

present singular third person upputs · participle present upputting

  1. ScotlandobsoletetransitiveTo put up; to erect; to raise.

    […] a supply out of the said vacant stipend for upputting the bridge of Alness.

    1896, Publications of the Scottish History Society, volume 24, page 161
    1 more example

    By 29th October, 1655, the Council ordain John Layng "to upput the bridge and the burn betwixt the bridges" within ten days thereafter.

    1934, Andrew Beaumont Robertson, Annals of the Royal Burgh of Forres, page 54

Origin

From up- + put.

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Chicago

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