WordNet
tier up
n. a worker who ties something [syn: tier]
Usage examples of "tier up".
Curiously, he peered at the vista of the ancient city of weathered stone and gaudily painted stucco, rising tier upon tier up the slope of the mountain.
If I do not attend to the stowing of the hold from the ground-tier up, I shall never know where we are.
He stepped through the opening, emerging on the second tier up from the huge cavern's floor.
A crude road led out of the settlement, its switched-back curves rising tier upon tier up the slope until it lost itself into ranks of stunted evergreens.