upwheel

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upwheel (third-person singular simple present upwheels, present participle upwheeling, simple past and past participle upwheeled)

(intransitive, poetic) To wheel upward.
- 1886, John Lancaster Spalding, The Poet's Praise, page 78:
  Like a loud trump of war, breaks forth thy song, / O Milton, where angelic hosts upwheel / To battle; or like deep-voiced organ peal / Filling with awe the mute adoring throng.