[UP- 7.]
1. Sc. The action of making up, in various senses.
1513. Extr. Aberd. Reg. (1844), I. 84. The biggin and vpmakin of thar blokhouse for thair artailzeric.
1681. R. Fleming, Fulfilling Script. (ed. 3), 64. When they … compared their gain with their losse, their upmaking with these dayes of trial. Ibid., 71. They have therein found a very sensible upmaking.
1856. Morton’s Cycl. Agric., II. 620/1. The average cost … did not exceed 15s. per acre…, with all necessary upmaking.
1897. Mrs. Oliphant, W. Blackwood, II. xxii. 409. A sheet was often left for him in the ‘upmaking’ till the last possible moment.
2. Shipbuilding. (See quot. 1846.)
1846. A. Young, Naut. Dict., 357. Upmaking,… pieces of plank or timber piled on each other as a filling up; more especially those placed between the bilge-coads and the ship’s bottom, preparatory to launching.
1883. Scotsman, 11 July, 5/2. The upmaking never showed any signs of giving way until the vessel was well clear of the standing ways.
