up-pulled

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Middle English uppuld, equivalent to up- +‎ pulled.

Adjective[edit]

up-pulled (not comparable)

  1. Pulled up.
    • 1869, Edward Howe, The boy in the bush, page 228:
      […] Mr. Lawson turned to refasten an up-pulled tent-peg, and to get a cord, and when he turned round again, the mulatto was gone.
    • 2017, Gardner Fox, Jeffrey K. Gardner, Cleopatra:
      Her handsome leg was exposed by the up-pulled hem of her torn tunic.
  2. (of a plant) Uprooted.
    • 1911, Arthur Hastings Grant, Harold Sinley Buttenheim, The American City, volume 4, page 187:
      A sympathetic youngster two or three years her senior thereupon came over, and, after persuading her to stop crying, showed her how to bury the roots of the up-pulled sprouts so that they would continue in their growth.

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