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Earth up   /ərθ əp/   Listen
Earth up

verb
1.
Block with earth, as after a landslide.  Synonym: land up.






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"Earth up" Quotes from Famous Books



... horse who has nearly stepped on a venomous snake. Those Texans who do not believe in the friendship of snake and prairie dog say that it is possible to make the rattler come out of a hole he has taken refuge in by rolling small pieces of dirt and earth down it. For they assert that the prairie dogs earth up the mouth of the burrow when they know a snake is in it, and the reptile knows what is about ...
— A Tramp's Notebook • Morley Roberts

... replied. There could be no doubt that Mrs. Flushing had represented the vigorous and abrupt fling of the earth up into the air; you could almost see the ...
— The Voyage Out • Virginia Woolf



Words linked to "Earth up" :   close up, block, impede, obstruct, jam, occlude, obturate, land up



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