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▪ I. ˈupfold, n. Geol.
[up- 2.]
= anticline.
1902Mackinder Britain & Brit. Seas vi. 80 The Mendip Range..is a complete upfold of carboniferous limestone.
▪ II. upˈfold, v.
[up- 4. Cf. LG. upfolden, G. auffalten.]
trans. To fold up, fold together; † to raise, push up. Also upˈfolded, † -ˈfolden pa. pple.
13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 643 Abraham, al hodlez with armez vp-folden. a1460Lament. Virgin in Chester Plays (1847) II. 206 The ston owyr hym he can upfolde,..And wente hys wey wherso he wolde. 1600Fairfax Tasso xvi. xiv, The gentlie budding rose..her beauties doth vpfold In their deare leaues. 1822J. Wilson Lights & Shadows Sc. Life 342 The leaves yet upfolded might almost be heard budding in the bower. 1878E. Jones Sens. & Event (1879) 200 Come o'er the hills, and pass unto the wold, And all things, as thou passest, in rest upfold. |