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† upaland
Sc. var. of upoland uponland adv. (with further reduction of the prep.; cf. aland adv.). Obs.
1500–20Dunbar Poems l. 19 At feistis and brydallis wpaland, He wan the gre. 1560–11st Bk. Discipl. Ch. Scot. (1621) 40 If it be upaland where the people convene to the doctrine but once in the week. 1572Satir. Poems Reform. xxxiii. 158 Ȝe do not ȝour office, For vpaland thay haue not dew seruice. a1600Montgomerie Sonn. xxv. 3 This is no lyfe that I live vpaland.
b. Jock upaland, a rustic. Also allusively.
a1568Bannatyne MS. (Hunter. Club) 268 Thus said Jok vpalland. 1637–50Row Hist. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.) 463 Many are gaping for it [sc. a church], and using moyen at Court to gaine it, but it will be Jok up-a-land.
Hence † upalands a. = uplands a.
1535Lyndesay Satyre 4040, I leirit ȝow merchants mony ane wyle, Vpalands wyfis for to begyle. 1595Duncan App. Etym. (E.D.S.), Pero, vpalands shoone. |