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