How to pronounce “upmaking”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• present participle and gerund of upmake
• [Noun]
• (nautical, historical) 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.
• (printing, historical) The arrangement of lines into columns or pages.

Practice Nearby Words

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Similar Sounds

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