upbind

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Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
15
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ʌpˈbaɪnd/

Definition of upbind

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (obsolete, poetic, transitive)To bind up.
    “All these the daughters of old Nereus were, / Which have the sea in charge to them assign'd, / To rule his tides, and surges to uprear, / To bring forth storms, or fast them to upbind, / And sailors save from wrecks of wrathful wind.”
    “But when the night cast up her shade aloft, / And all earth's colors strange in sable dy'd, / He light, and as he could his wounds upbound, / And shook ripe dates down from a palm he found.”
    “1834, William Sotheby, translator, Homer, Iliad, Book 18, in The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, volume 2, Nicol, page 223, The reapers toil'd, the sickles in their hand, / Heap after heap fell thick along the land; / Three labourers grasp them, and in sheaves upbind; / Boys, gathering up their handfuls, went behind, / Proffering their load:”

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Etymology

From up- + bind.

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