wind up one's bottoms

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wind up one's bottoms (third-person singular simple present winds up one's bottoms, present participle winding up one's bottoms, simple past and past participle wound up one's bottoms)

1. (idiomatic, obsolete) To finish a job.
   • 1770, Joseph Banks, The Endeavour Journal of Sir Joseph Banks, entry for 1770 February 5 [1]

     Myself and the Dr went ashore today to wind up our bottoms

References

• Ray Parkin, H. M. Bark Endeavour, Miegunyah Press, second edition 2003, →ISBN, (explaining the following from Banks.)