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English
Etymology
From up- + shut.
Verb
upshut (third-person singular simple present upshuts, present participle upshutting, simple past and past participle upshut)
- (transitive, poetic, archaic) To shut up; to close.
1854, Friedrich Schiller, Montagu Montagu, The Song of the Bell: And Other Poems, page 133:Now in due order all again
Into its place he puts;
The Sanctuary arranges; then
Withdraws, and that upshuts.