(UK, Irish, sailing, slang) To put up the mast of a ship in preparation for sailing.
Both of these conquered more and more of India, till at length the Rajput city of Delhi was captured, and then the disgusted Rajputs ‘upped sticks’ and fled before Islam and the Turk, and finally settled amid the inaccessible mountains a…
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(UK, Irish, figurative, colloquial) To prepare to move; to pack up; to go and live in a different place.
If a doctor had to do an operation in a sailing ship, you upped sticks and went before the wind, he said.
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