mew up

English

mew up (third-person singular simple present mews up, present participle mewing up, simple past and past participle mewed up)

(archaic) to imprison
- 1835, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Home: A Story of New England Life:
  "We do not keep him mewed up, Betsey," replied Mrs. Barclay, “nor does he continue mewed up, for a single flash of temper […] "