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Run up   /rən əp/   Listen
Run up

verb
1.
Pile up (debts or scores).
2.
Raise.  Synonym: hoist.  "Hoist a sail"
3.
Fasten by sewing; do needlework.  Synonyms: sew, sew together, stitch.
4.
Accumulate as a debt.  Synonym: chalk up.
5.
Make by sewing together quickly.





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"Run up" Quotes from Famous Books



... best inn, The Four Nations, by a good dinner in its dining-room of seven mirrors and a broken tile floor, and had some talk with its host as to their late ruler,—he said Napoleon came that evening, sent at once for Elba's oldest flag, which was run up on the forts ...
— James Fenimore Cooper • Mary E. Phillips
... there's nothing to be got out of this hunt, but there's treasure on the high seas all the same. Here's our offer: keep command of your ship and run up the black flag!" ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... 23d of May the work of fortifying and pushing forward our position nearer to the enemy had been steadily progressing. At three points on the Jackson road, in front of Leggett's brigade, a sap was run up to the enemy's parapet, and by the 25th of June we had it undermined and the mine charged. The enemy had countermined, but did not succeed in reaching our mine. At this particular point the hill on which the rebel work ...
— Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete • Ulysses S. Grant
... to Texas; California is Southwest more in an antiquarian way than other-wise. From the point of view of the most picturesque and imagination-influencing occupation of the Southwest, the occupation of ranching, the Southwest might be said to run up into Montana. Certainly one will have to go up the trail to Montana to finish out the story of the Texas cowboy. Early in the nineteenth century the Southwest meant Tennessee, Georgia, and other frontier territory now regarded as strictly South. The ...
— Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest • J. Frank Dobie
... because he has a way of putting you in your place. I felt like something in a nightmare he was having. He annexes you, and he disapproves of you at the same time. I am awfully sorry for him, but I can't help him. The moment I try, I run up against his disapproval, and my vulgar spirit revolts. He's an aristocrat, through and through. He comes and hoists his flag over a place. I felt all yesterday as if I were a rather unwelcome guest in his house, you know. It's a stifling ...
— Father Payne • Arthur Christopher Benson


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