Meanings
verbupstrap (third-person singular simple present upstraps, present participle upstrapping, simple past and past participle upstrapped)
present singular third person upstraps · participle present upstrapping · participle past upstrapped · past upstrapped
- archaicTo strap up
Our old bass player, as I recall—his white hair blown—but why recall!— His viol upstrapped, bent figure—doomed to follow her full soon— Stood bowing, pale and tremulous; and next to him the rest of us. …
1909, Thomas Hardy, “The Rash Bride”, in Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses, London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 127
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