TYING UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tying up mean? 

• TYING UP (noun)
  The noun TYING UP has 1 sense:

1. the act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes

  Familiarity information: TYING UP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TYING UP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

dockage; docking; moorage; tying up

Hypernyms ("tying up" is a kind of...):

arrival (the act of arriving at a certain place)

 Context examples 

Summerlee was wiping the blood from a cut in his forehead, while I was tying up a nasty stab in the muscle of the neck.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Dummling did not think long, but went straight into the forest, where in the same place there sat a man who was tying up his body with a strap, and making an awful face, and saying: I have eaten a whole ovenful of rolls, but what good is that when one has such a hunger as I?

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to Godfrey Norton, bachelor.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)