English

Verb

to win up

1. (obsolete) To get back on one's feet. [14th-19th c.]
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book X:

     And so they ran togydirs so myghtyly that ayther smote other downe, horse and all, to the erth; and than they wan up lyghtly, and drewe swerdys and dressed their shyldis [...].