ˈshut-up, a.
[shut ppl. a.: cf. shut v. 19.]
1. That has been shut up.
| 1614 Gorges Lucan x. 443 [He] relies Vpon the hope of shut vp wayes. a 1887 Jefferies Field & Hedgerow (1889) 315 Job had a lot of shut-up rooms in his house. |
2. That can be shut up; foldable.
| 1799 Jane Austen Let. 8 Jan. (1952) 50 Martha kindly made room for me in her bed, which was the shut-up one in the new nursery. 1911 R. Nevill Floreat Etona x. 307 The furniture of the rooms... For the most part..consisted of a shut-up bed, a ‘burry’ (bureau) washstand, which also closed up, and sock cupboard. |