win up

verb

win up

verb

1

Obsolete To get back on one's feet.

And so they ran togydirs so myghtyly that ayther smote other downe, horse and all, to the erth; and than they wan up lyghtly, and drewe swerdys and dressed their shyldis […]1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book X:

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