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Webster 1913 Edition


Uppluck

Up-pluck′

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Verb.
T.
To pull or pluck up.
[Obs.]

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uppluck

uppluck

English

Alternative forms

  • up-pluck

Verb

uppluck (third-person singular simple present upplucks, present participle upplucking, simple past and past participle upplight or upplucked)

  1. (transitive, rare) To pluck up; pull up; deracinate.
    • circa 1632, Giles Fletcher, Alexander Balloch Grosart, Christ's triumph over Death:
      And you, sweet flow'rs that in this garden grow...Yourselves uppluck'd would to his funeral hie.
    • 1829, The London encyclopaedia, The Canterbury Tales:
      The gates of the toun hath he upplight, and on his bak ycaried them hath he, [...]
    • 1829, Zenas Campbell, Man's first estate and high revolt:
      For to the seated hills they flew, Which loos'ning to and fro, Quickly upplucked by the roots And on their en'mys throw, [...]
    • 1891, Ḥāfiẓ, The Dīvān: Volume 2:
      The tree of justice, plant thou: the root of ill-wishers, up-pluck.