carry up

English

Verb

carry up (third-person singular simple present carries up, present participle carrying up, simple past and past participle carried up)

1. (transitive) To convey or extend in an upward course or direction; to build.

   to carry up a wall

2. (transitive) To trace back.
   • 1798, British Critic and Quarterly Theological Review, volume 10, page 425:

     Mr. Noble is unwilling to carry up the genealogy of this family to an earlier ancestry […]