upbind

verb
/ʌpˈbaɪnd/

Etymology

From up- + bind.

  1. inherited from *bindaną
  2. inherited from *bindan
  3. inherited from bindan
  4. inherited from binden
  5. prefixed as upbind — “up + bind

Definitions

  1. 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.

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