carry up

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English

Verb

carry up (third-person singular simple present carries up, present participle carrying up, simple past and past participle carried up)

  1. (transitive) To convey or extend in an upward course or direction; to build.
    to carry up a wall
  2. (transitive) To trace back.
    • 1798, British Critic and Quarterly Theological Review, volume 10, page 425:
      Mr. Noble is unwilling to carry up the genealogy of this family to an earlier ancestry []