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Etymology

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up- +‎ shut

Verb

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upshut (third-person singular simple present upshuts, present participle upshutting, simple past and past participle upshut)

  1. (transitive, poetic, archaic) To shut up; to close.
    • 1854, Friedrich Schiller, Montagu Montagu, The Song of the Bell: And Other Poems, page 133:
      Now in due order all again
      Into its place he puts;
      The Sanctuary arranges; then
      Withdraws, and that upshuts.