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English
Etymology
From up- + put.
Verb
upput (third-person singular simple present upputs, present participle upputting, simple past and past participle upput)
- (Scotland, obsolete, transitive) To put up; to erect; to raise.
1896, Publications of the Scottish History Society, volume 24, page 161:[…] a supply out of the said vacant stipend for upputting the bridge of Alness.
1934, Andrew Beaumont Robertson, Annals of the Royal Burgh of Forres, page 54:By 29th October, 1655, the Council ordain John Layng "to upput the bridge and the burn betwixt the bridges" within ten days thereafter.