to win up: to get up; to get up on one's feet, to rise; to get on horseback, mount. So to win upon.

intransitive. With prepositional or adverbial complements. With of: to become of, to happen to. Obsolete.

transitive. To use as a means of transport; to board or mount for a journey. Frequently with adverb or preposition of direction. Cf. sense 65.

transitive. To get up on to the back of (a horse or other animal) for the purpose of riding; to seat oneself in the saddle of (a bicycle…

intransitive. To mount (a horse, etc.); = to get on —— 1a at phrasal verbs 2.

intransitive. To mount (a horse, etc.); to make one's way on to (a cart, train, aircraft, etc.).

To mount, ride on (a horse); also, to break him in to the saddle. Also, figurative of the billows, etc. (Cf. To breast the waves.) Now rare.