built-up

[ bilt-uhp ]

/ ˈbɪltˌʌp /

built by the fastening together of several parts or enlarged by the addition of layers: This shoe has a built-up heel.

(of an area) filled in with houses, as an urban region.

Origin of built-up

First recorded in 1820–30

A built-up doorway may be noticed under the first window from the west of this transept.

Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester |Philip Walsingham Sergeant
The hull is of the built-up type, and the other three boards that go to make it up are not shown.

Boys' Book of Model Boats |Raymond Francis Yates
The park system is very extensive, spreading partially around the built-up portions and embracing twenty-one hundred acres.

America, Volume 6 (of 6) |Joel Cook
Having decided to purchase a built-up rod, we have to consider its length, etc.

Chats on Angling |H. V. Hart-Davis

Built-up Letters are composed of compound strokes (c, d, fig. 164); Simple-written Letters of simple strokes (a, b).

Writing & Illuminating, & Lettering |Edward Johnston

built-up

having many buildings (esp in the phrase built-up area)

denoting a beam, girder, or stanchion constructed of sections welded, riveted, or bolted together, etc

increased by the addition of parts built-up heels