up haf
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Middle English
[edit]Verb
[edit]- past of upheven
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Knyghtes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
- And Arcita anon his hand up haf,
And moore encens into the fyr he cast- (please add an English translation of this quotation)