upbind

1. (transitive, obsolete, poetic) To bind up.Examples: "All these the daughters of old Nereus were, / Which have the sea in charge to them assign'd, / To rule his tides, and surges to uprear, / To bring forth storms, or fast them to upbind, / And sailors save from wrecks of wrathful wind."; "But when the night cast up her shade aloft, / And all earth's colors strange in sable dy'd, / He light, and as he could his wounds upbound, / And shook ripe dates down from a palm he found."; "1834, William Sotheby, translator, Homer, Iliad, Book 18, in The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, volume 2, Nicol, page 223, The reapers toil'd, the sickles in their hand, / Heap after heap fell thick along the land; / Three labourers grasp them, and in sheaves upbind; / Boys, gathering up their handfuls, went behind, / Proffering their load:"obsoletepoetictransitive