What does upstay mean?
Upstay means (now rare) To sustain, support..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(now rare) To sustain, support..
Close to the vital seat of human clay; / Glad meetings, tender partings, that upstay
In front, a massive gateway threats the sky, / And posts of solid adamant upstay / An iron tower, firm-planted to defy / All force, divine or human. Night and day,
1917, Henry Charles Beeching, The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse, 246, The Tree of Life Lighten, O sword divine, to clear my way, / And thou, O happy heart, upstay
those two villeins, which her steps vpstayd, / When her weake feete could scarcely her sustaine, / And fading vitall powers gan to fade, / Her forward still with torture did constraine […]
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Upstay means (now rare) To sustain, support..
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Close to the vital seat of human clay; / Glad meetings, tender partings, that upstay
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