upstruck
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]upstruck (not comparable)
- Protruding upwards.
- 1915, Luggage and Leather Goods, volumes 35-36, page 488:
- The inventor claims: An umbrella attachment, comprising a tube haying a relatively shallow circumferential groove, a flange located at one side of the groove and having an upstruck peripheral portion, […]
- 1964, Canadian Patent Office Record, volume 92, page 6334:
- […] an upper cradle, and an intermediate interconnecting leg support, said plate being in the form of a generally rectangular, elongated, sheet metal stamping having a pair of marginal upstruck reinforcing ribs along its side edges […]