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Definition of Frame up
1. Verb. Construct by fitting or uniting parts together.
Category relationships: Building, Construction
Generic synonyms: Build, Construct, Make
Definition of Frame up
1. Verb. (construction) To erect the initial walls and roof of a new building. ¹
2. Verb. To arrange fraudulent evidence to falsely implicate a person of a crime; to frame. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frame Up
Literary usage of Frame up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Woollen Spinning: A Text-book for Students in Technical Schools and Colleges by Charles Vickerman (1894)
"849346560 3 ends from 3rd drawing frame up at 4th drawing frame. 2548039680 2
ends from 4th drawing up at reducing frame. ..."
2. Doctor Claudius: A True Story by Francis Marion Crawford (1883)
"... as has been said, and Barker did not believe it possible that he could drag
his gigantic frame up the smooth mast beyond the shrouds. ..."
3. The Great Adventure at Washington: The Story of the Conference by Mark Sullivan, Joseph Cummings Chase (1922)
"It was merely the more convincing evidence of a careful "frame-up" when Lord
Riddell was able to say that he had got the information he let out about the ..."
4. The Madonna of the Hills: A Story of a New York Cabaret Girl by Arthur Guy Empey (1921)
"... THE FRAME-UP MOLLIE had made an instant hit on Broadway. Her salary had been
raised twice, until she was now drawing two hundred a week. ..."
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