Definition of "call up" []

• An order to report for military service. (noun)
• To retrieve from personal or computer memory. (verb)
• To call on the telephone. (verb)
• To select e.g. to a sports squad. (verb)

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• ""Ye'd better jest put up here, now, till daylight," said he, heartily, "and I'll call up the old woman, and have a bed got ready for you in no time.""
• "Overseers call up their hogs every day and feed thm. and want them to the"
• "Until A. P. Hill arrived from Harper's Ferry—if he could hope to complete his march that day—Jones could call up two regiments only."