▪ I. dup, v. dial. or arch.
(dʌp)
[contr. from do up (see do v. 52): cf. doff, don, dout, and see dub v.3]
trans. To open.
| 1547 Boorde Introd. Knowl. i. (1870) 122 Dup the dore, gos! 1564 Edwards Dam. & Pithias in Hazl. Dodsley IV. 69 Will they not dup the gate to-day? 1602 Shakes. Ham. iv. v. 51 Then vp he rose, and don'd his clothes, and dupt the chamber dore. 1673 R. Head Canting Acad. 14 If we..dup the Giger. 1785 in Grose Dict. Vulg. Tongue. 1865 S. Evans Bro. Fabian 5 ‘Now dup the gate’, quoth the king's men, ‘So quickly as ye may’. |
▪ II. dup, -e
obs. forms of deep.