单词 | upping |
释义 | † uppingn.1 Obsolete. Manifestation, making known. ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > [noun] uppingc950 showingOE propositiona1382 evidencec1384 musterc1400 manifestation?a1425 demonstrationc1450 ostension1474 demonstrance1509 ostentationa1513 forthsetting1528 apparition1533 manifesting1536 outshow1547 objection1554 displaying1556 proclamation1567 discovery1576 remonstrance1583 appearance1587 explicature1592 ostent1600 object1609 showing forth1615 innotescencea1631 presentment1637 deplication1648 display1661 exertion1668 extraversion1675 exhibitiona1677 exertment1696 show-off1776 unfoldment1850 outcrop1854 outplay1859 eclosion1889 c950 Rit. Durham 195 Epiphania, manifestatio, ypping. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 118 Goddede idraȝen forð nis naut ane forlore. þurch þe uppinge. Ach þuncheð ȝet eðeliche bifore godes echȝe. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2019). uppingn.2 1. The action of catching and marking swans. (See up v. 1, and cf. swan-hopping n., swan-upping n.) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > [noun] > keeping of swans > marking of swan upping1560 swan-hopping1598 swan-upping1810 swan-marking1900 1560 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 285 For upping of half game in cowemeade, iiij d. 1570 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 338 For upping of swans, viij s. 1593 Buckhurst in A. J. Kempe Losely MSS (1836) 306 That the upping of all those swans..may be upped all in on day wt the upping of the Tems. 1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 Aug. 2/1 The operation of ‘upping’ is performed by the Crown and the Companies' swan-masters together. 2. dialect. The end, issue, or upshot of a matter. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > effect, result, or consequence > [noun] > outcome or that which results issuea1325 outcominga1382 conclusionc1384 endc1385 fruita1400 finec1405 termination?a1425 sumc1430 succession1514 sequel1524 game1530 success1537 event1539 pass1542 increase1560 outgate1568 exit1570 cropc1575 utmosta1586 upshoot1598 sequence1600 upshot1604 resultance1616 upshut1620 succedenta1633 apotelesm1636 come-off1640 conclude1643 prosult1647 offcome1666 resultant1692 outlet1710 period1713 outcome1788 outrun1801 outcome1808 upset1821 overcome1822 upping1828 summary1831 outgo1870 upcomec1874 out-turn1881 end-product1923 pay-off1926 wash-up1961 1828– in Yks. and Lanc. glossaries. 3. The action of getting or going up.See earlier attributive uses at Compounds. ΚΠ 1908 H. G. Wells War in Air i It's only yestiday..when all London turned out to see a balloon go over, and now every little place..has its weekly outings—uppings, rather. Compounds (In sense 3.) General attributive.Also in dialect use with -chock, -steps. upping-block n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > mounting a horse > mounting-block mounting place1490 riding block1570 block1614 mounting block1659 horsing stone1661 horsing-block1662 upping-stocka1697 joss-block1706 horse-block1713 mounting stone1794 upping-block1796 upping-stone1809 horse-steps1828 leaping-on-stone1837 stepping-stone1837 stirrup-stone1838 pillion stone1907 1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) Upping block, steps for mounting a horse. 1826 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 14 Oct. 153 Houses..with large stone upping-blocks against the walls of them. 1883 Trans. Amer. Philol. Soc. 55 Upping~block, ‘a horse-block,’ in common use in West Virginia. upping-stock n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > mounting a horse > mounting-block mounting place1490 riding block1570 block1614 mounting block1659 horsing stone1661 horsing-block1662 upping-stocka1697 joss-block1706 horse-block1713 mounting stone1794 upping-block1796 upping-stone1809 horse-steps1828 leaping-on-stone1837 stepping-stone1837 stirrup-stone1838 pillion stone1907 a1697 J. Aubrey Nat. Hist. Wilts. (1847) i. ii. 26 At the foot of Shotover-hill, near the upping-stock. 1820 Sporting Mag. 6 159 An itinerant preacher on the upping-stock at the back of my house. 1856 G. Roberts Social Hist. S. Counties Eng. 560 Upping stocks and horse blocks were necessary when double horses were in use. upping-stone n. A horse-block, a mounting-stone. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > mounting a horse > mounting-block mounting place1490 riding block1570 block1614 mounting block1659 horsing stone1661 horsing-block1662 upping-stocka1697 joss-block1706 horse-block1713 mounting stone1794 upping-block1796 upping-stone1809 horse-steps1828 leaping-on-stone1837 stepping-stone1837 stirrup-stone1838 pillion stone1907 1809 Hazlitt in The Hazlitts (1911) I. 433 A conception of the ladder which I learned from the upping stone on the down. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online September 2020). < n.1c950n.21560 |
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