uppluck
verbEtymology From Middle English upplucken, upplukken, equivalent to up- + pluck.
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Rare To pluck up; pull up; deracinate.
- And you, sweet flow'rs that in this garden grow...Yourselves uppluck'd would to his funeral hie.c. 1632, Giles Fletcher, Alexander Balloch Grosart, Christ's triumph over Death:
- The gates of the toun hath he upplight, and on his bak ycaried them hath he, [...]1829, The London encyclopaedia, The Canterbury Tales:
2 more examples
- For to the seated hills they flew, Which loos'ning to and fro, Quickly upplucked by the roots And on their en'mys throw, [...]1829, Zenas Campbell, Man's first estate and high revolt:
- The tree of justice, plant thou: the root of ill-wishers, up-pluck.1891, Ḥāfiẓ, The Dīvān: Volume 2: