[f. ATLAS sb.1] trans. To support after the manner of Atlas: a. to prop up; b. to carry on one’s shoulder or head.
1593. Nashe, Christes T. (1613), 121. To ouerthrow both thy cause and my credite at once, by ouer-Atlassing mine inuention.
1859. All Y. Round, No. 35. 203. An Armenian, atlasing a square coop of some forty barn-door fowls.
