Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To draw up. Cowper, Iliad, i.
- Figuratively, to train or bring up.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To draw up.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive, rare To
draw up - John Milton
Etymologies
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Examples
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Both men were grappled together as they went down; but Grief, with a quick updraw of his knees to the other's chest, broke the grip and forced him down.
A SON OF THE SUN 2010
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Both men were grappled together as they went down; but Grief, with a quick updraw of his knees to the other's chest, broke the grip and forced him down.
A Son of the Sun 1912
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a quick updraw of his knees to the other's chest, broke the grip and forced him down.
A Son Of The Sun Jack London 1896
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D.W.] in hand, his mouth at the blow-stop was relieved of its pained updraw by the form for puffing; he preserved a gentlemanly high figure in his exercises on the instrument, out of ken of all likeness to the urgent insistency of Victor Radnor's punctuating trunk of the puffing frame at almost every bar -- an Apollo brilliancy in energetic pursuit of the nymph of sweet sound.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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D.W.] in hand, his mouth at the blow-stop was relieved of its pained updraw by the form for puffing; he preserved a gentlemanly high figure in his exercises on the instrument, out of ken of all likeness to the urgent insistency of Victor Radnor's punctuating trunk of the puffing frame at almost every bar -- an Apollo brilliancy in energetic pursuit of the nymph of sweet sound.
One of Our Conquerors — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868
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D.W.] in hand, his mouth at the blow-stop was relieved of its pained updraw by the form for puffing; he preserved
One of Our Conquerors — Complete George Meredith 1868
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