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Webster 1913 Edition

Upspear

Up-spear′

,
Verb.
I.
To grow or shoot up like a spear;
as,
upspearing
grass
.
[R.]
Cowper.

Definition 2024

upspear

upspear

English

Verb

upspear ‎(third-person singular simple present upspears, present participle upspearing, simple past and past participle upspeared)

  1. (archaic, poetic, intransitive) To rise or point upward like spears.
    • 1883, Robina Forrester Hardy, The Children of the Bible (page 11)
      A hundred tents upspear from out the foliage, and countless flocks and herds are safely pasturing around them. That is Beer-sheba, on the borders of the Philistines' land […]

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