upbind

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *upó

Proto-Germanic *ub

Proto-Germanic *upp

Proto-West Germanic *upp

Old English up

Old English ūp-

Middle English up-

English up-

Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ-der.

Proto-Germanic *bindaną

Proto-West Germanic *bindan

Old English bindan

Middle English bynden

English bind

English upbind

From up- + bind.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʌpˈbaɪnd/

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• Rhymes: -aɪnd

Verb

upbind (third-person singular simple present upbinds, present participle upbinding, simple past and past participle upbound)

1. (transitive, obsolete, poetic) To bind up.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene‎^[1], published 1758, Canto XLI, page 149:

     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.

   • 1600, Edward Fairfax, Torquato Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne, or Jerusalem Delivered, Book X Stanza V:

     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:

Anagrams

• bind up, bindup