upput

English

Etymology

up- +‎ put

Verb

upput (third-person singular simple present upputs, present participle upputting, simple past and past participle upput)

1. (Scotland, obsolete, transitive) To put up; to erect; to raise.
   • 1896, Publications of the Scottish History Society (volume 24, page 161)

     […] a supply out of the said vacant stipend for upputting the bridge of Alness.

   • 1934, Andrew Beaumont Robertson, Annals of the Royal Burgh of Forres (page 54)

     By 29th October, 1655, the Council ordain John Layng "to upput the bridge and the burn betwixt the bridges" within ten days thereafter.