[extropy-chat] Up as a verb

[Dan Clemmensen]

Spike wrote:

>>Damien Broderick
>>
>>... hoisting me on my own recent petard...
>>    
>>
>
>Ah yes, the Shakespearean SF author among us can perhaps
>shed light upon this comment:
>
>...
>
>Still, this shows that it doesn't pay to up and leave...
>
>Damien Broderick
>
>
>What part of speech is "up"?  Does the preposition become
>a verb?  If so, it represents yet an example of which I
>can immediately think of only two, the other being the
>curious catchphrase "the truth will out."  What is that?
>Does "out" become a verb?  For otherwise that sentence
>has no verb, or as some jokers might say 
>
>
>  
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Like a great many words and phrases, the use of "up" as a verb is a
nautical term. Two examples:
    Up anchor!
and
    Up spirits!

I think "up and leave" comes from the fact that "anchor" is implied when
there is no stated object.

(Of course, I could be completely wrong. I am currently reading Partick 
O'Brien's
entire Audry/Maturin series, and is may be affecting my etymological 
judgement.)