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upmaking

upmaking is the present participle and gerund of upmake.

Noun

upmaking (usually uncountable, plural upmakings)

(historical, usually) 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.
(historical, usually) The arrangement of lines into columns or pages.

Meaning of upmake

Verb

upmake (third-person singular simple present upmakes, present participle upmaking, simple past and past participle upmade)

(archaic, rare, transitive) To make up.
- O how are they upmade, who have a true interest in, and such a sure relation unto such a Lord, head and husband, as can and will carry on their profit and advantage, even by such dispensations, …1745, John Brown (Minister of the Gospel at Wamphray.), A Pious and Elaborate Treatise concerning Prayer
Synonyms:

compose, constitute, form

Forms of upmaking

plural	upmakings

Questions about upmaking

What does upmaking mean?: Upmaking means 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.
What is upmaking the present participle and gerund of?: Upmaking is the present participle and gerund of upmake.
What part of speech is upmaking?: Upmaking is a noun.
What is the plural of upmaking?: The plural of upmaking is upmakings.

Words near upmaking in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: upmaking (page history and authors); upmake (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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