uppluckとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English upplucken, upplukken, equivalent to up- +‎ pluck.

動詞

uppluck (三人称単数 現在形 upplucks, 現在分詞 upplucking, 過去形および過去分詞形 upplight または upplucked)

1. (transitive, まれに) To pluck up; pull up; deracinate.
   • circa 1632, Giles Fletcher, Alexander Balloch Grosart, Christ's triumph over Death:

     And you, sweet flow'rs that in this garden grow...Yourselves uppluck'd would to his funeral hie.

   • 1829, The London encyclopaedia, The Canterbury Tales:

     The gates of the toun hath he upplight, and on his bak ycaried them hath he, [...]

   • 1829, Zenas Campbell, Man's first estate and high revolt:

     For to the seated hills they flew, Which loos'ning to and fro, Quickly upplucked by the roots And on their en'mys throw, [...]

   • 1891, Ḥāfiẓ, The Dīvān: Volume 2:

     The tree of justice, plant thou: the root of ill-wishers, up-pluck.