Kinda like “hook up” here. Hooking up meant just that...hooking up a trailer to a truck, or hooking up electric wiring...
Of course, my friend from Scotland, years ago, said she would knock up her husband in the mornings and then give him a piece to take to work for lunch.
I still laugh at it, but it’s so much easier to say!! :oþ
Yeah, just to circle back to Kipling, he said that “In England all men spoke one tongue, speciously like American to the ear, but on cross-examination unintelligible.” (from another great short story, “An Habitation Enforced”)