ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Upmaking

Definition & Meaning

Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Upmaking is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of upmake.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of upmake.

More Meanings

  1. (printing, historical) The arrangement of lines into columns or pages.
  2. (nautical, historical) Pieces of plank or timber piled on each other as filling up in building, especially between the bilgeways and ship's bottom, preparatory to launching.

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Related dictionary entries include berthing, groundway, quickwork, wharfing, piling, boottopping.

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