Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To plunge in up to the hilt.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To thrust in up to the hilt.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
thrust in up to thehilt ; as, to uphilt one's sword into an enemy.
Etymologies
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From up- + hilt.
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Examples
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He handed me his pistol, saying, "Captain Maury, I've always uphilt ye fer a gintleman, if ye are a Southern man, and I'll do just as ye bid me," and turning he went to the guard tent and lay down.
Recollections of a Virginian in the Mexican, Indian, and Civil wars, 1894
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"I knew it myself, but I didn't 'low you was to blame,' less you uphilt him in it."
Ralph Granger's Fortunes William Perry Brown 1885
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