Possible Clues:

• Ill-used, getting no place at Oxford? The reverse
• Construct one lacking English used
• Accommodate number going north being exploited
• Inconvenienced, having to accommodate rising number
• Take advantage of silly sulky expression masked by joke
• Treated unfairly
• '... advised him not to carry the jest too far, for he would not endure being —' (Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews)
• Used badly, as a table that gets covered with things?
• Exploit play of words about uplifting place by ocean
• Take unfair advantage of