carry up

verb — 2 senses

carry up

verb

1

To convey or extend in an upward course or direction; to build.

to carry up a wall

2

To trace back.

Mr. Noble is unwilling to carry up the genealogy of this family to an earlier ancestry […]1798, British Critic and Quarterly Theological Review, volume 10, page 425:

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