English edit

Etymology edit

up- +‎ spearing

Adjective edit

upspearing (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Growing or shooting up like a spear.
    upspearing grass

Verb edit

upspearing

  1. present participle and gerund of upspear

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for upspearing”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)