vbl. sb. Sc. [UP- 7.]
† 1. The action of erecting or setting up. Obs.
1513. Extr. Aberd. Reg. (1844), I. 86. For vpputting of the weddercok of Sanct Nicholace stepill,… v lib. Ibid. (1597), II. 158. The perfyting, ending, and vpputting of ane dyell … one the tolbuyith.
1642. in Cramond, Ann. Cullen (1888), 41. Anent upputting and edifeing the tolbuith.
a. 1670. Spalding, Troub. Chas. I. (1840), I. 313. To tak doun the portrait of our blissid virgyn Marie … that had stand since the vpputting thairof.
2. Accommodation, lodging. (Cf. PUT v. 53. o.)
1815. Scott, Guy M., ix. You, who have free upputting—bed, board, and washing.
1831. Mrs. Carlyle, Lett. & Mem. (1903), I. 37. We succeeded in realising a much better up-putting … in the house of a Mrs. Miles.
1895. Crockett, Men of Moss-Hags, xxxviii. In the wild country … was no provision for the up-putting of young … maids.
