upstrap
English
Verb
upstrap (third-person singular simple present upstraps, present participle upstrapping, simple past and past participle upstrapped)
- (archaic) To strap up
- 1909, Thomas Hardy, “The Rash Bride”, in Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses, London: Macmillan & Co., OCLC 28932155, page 127:
- Our old bass player, as I recall—his white hair blown—but why recall!—
His viol upstrapped, bent figure—doomed to follow her full soon—
Stood bowing, pale and tremulous; and next to him the rest of us. …
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