upcrawl

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upcrawl (third-person singular simple present upcrawls, present participle upcrawling, simple past and past participle upcrawled)

(intransitive, poetic, archaic) To crawl upward.
- 1883, William J. Coughlin, Songs of an Idle Hour, page 47:
  Behold his venal brain bared to our gaze, / See the base thoughts which worm-like there upcrawl, / Countless and teeming from their burrow's maze; […]