upspear

English

Etymology

From up- +‎ spear.

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 […]

Anagrams

• paupers