uppluck

English edit

Alternative forms edit

up-pluck

Etymology edit

From Middle English upplucken, upplukken, equivalent to up- +‎ pluck.

Verb edit

uppluck (third-person singular simple present upplucks, present participle upplucking, simple past and past participle upplight or upplucked)

(transitive, rare) To pluck up; pull up; deracinate.
- c. 1632, Giles Fletcher, Alexander Balloch Grosart, Christ's triumph over Death:
  And you, sweet flow'rs that in this garden grow...Yourselves uppluck'd would to his funeral hie.
- 1829, The London encyclopaedia, The Canterbury Tales:
  The gates of the toun hath he upplight, and on his bak ycaried them hath he, [...]
- 1829, Zenas Campbell, Man's first estate and high revolt:
  For to the seated hills they flew, Which loos'ning to and fro, Quickly upplucked by the roots And on their en'mys throw, [...]
- 1891, Ḥāfiẓ, The Dīvān: Volume 2:
  The tree of justice, plant thou: the root of ill-wishers, up-pluck.

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