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up-ˈend, v. orig. dial.
[up adv.1]
1. a. trans. To set (something) on its end; to turn end upwards; dial. to set (also refl., to get) on one's feet. Also fig.
1823E. Moor Suffolk Words 460 Upinnd, to set a cask or any thing on its end. 1868Rep. to Govt. U.S. Munitions War 274 The bursting of a few shells..tearing, up-ending, and setting fire to the planking of the latter [deck]. 1874Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. 173 An approaching heavy sea may carry the boat away..and turn it broadside on, or up-end it. 1900H. Lawson Over Sliprails 29 It crawled to the wall, against which it slowly and painfully up-ended itself. 1970G. Greer Female Eunuch 37 By growing their hair they managed to up-end some strange presupposition about its sexual significance.
b. In pa. pple.: Sitting up.
1874E. Waugh Chimney Corner (1879) 123, I left him about two minutes sin' up-ended i' bed.
2. intr. To rise up on end; spec. of waterfowl: to dip the head below water and raise the tail into the air, when searching for food in shallow water.
1897Kipling Capt. Cour. 52 They up-eend thet way when they're hungry. 1902S. E. White Blazed Trail xxxii, A log in the advance up-ended; another thrust under it. 1927E. Sandars Bird Bk. for Pocket ii. 126 [Brent Geese] sometimes when feeding at high tide, up-end like Ducks. 1954A. W. P. Robertson Bird Pageant i. 20 Avocets..often when water-borne..up-end like ducks. 1957R. A. H. Coombes in D. A. Bannerman Birds Brit. Isles VI. 266, I never saw them ‘upending’ in the shallows as the other geese were fond of doing.
fig.1981Birds Summer 47/2 An up-ending mallard is a feeding mallard, but this, our commonest duck, is as adaptable in its feeding technique as it is in its choice of food.
Hence up-ended ppl. a.
1880‘Mark Twain’ Tramp Abr. xlvii. 488 Propping them..with her up-ended valise. 1896C. Allen Papier Mâché 121 The up-ended box whereon the student was perched.
Add:[1.] c. Metall. = upset v. 1 c.
1932E. Gregory Metall. ii. 63 In order to obtain fibre which is most favourably disposed, many articles are ‘up-ended’. 1954Gloss. Terms Iron & Steel (B.S.I.) vi. 10 Cheese, a roughly cylindrical forging with convex sides formed by upending ingot or billet lengths between flat tools. |