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▪ I. up-river, a. and n. orig. U.S.|ˈʌpˌrɪvə(r)|
[up prep.2 2, 6.]
1. adj.
a. Belonging to, situated, etc., farther up, or towards the upper end of, a river.
1774I. Litchfield Jrnl. 19 Apr. in W. J. Litchfield Litchfield Family in Amer. (1906) i. 334, I..ordered them to meet at upriver meeting house by the Sun an hour high Compleat in arms with 4 Days provision. 1857Trans. Mich. Agric. Soc. VIII. 732 Charming villages are also rapidly springing into existence along the up river bank of the Grand River in this country. 1877Encycl. Brit. VII. 648/1 The fine ‘up-river’ quality [of cocoa]. 1886Pall Mall G. 17 April 5/2 The advantages offered by the up-river docks. 1899Keane Man Past & Pres. 241 The forest and up-river Dyaks.
b. Leading or directed towards the source of a river.
1836Southern Lit. Messenger II. 698/1, I had never imagined that any thing half so grand..awaited us on our up-river jaunt. 1857W. Chandless Visit to Salt Lake i. i. i, I passed a few days there, waiting for an up-river boat. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer (1891) 319 Wending his way along the ‘up-river’ road. 1893D. J. Rankin Zambesi Basin vi. 95 We proceeded on our up-river journey.
2. n. The district lying farther up a river.
1902S. E. White Blazed Trail xix, If the men from up-river come by.
▪ II. up-ˈriver, adv.
[up prep.2 2.]
Towards or in the direction of the source of a river.
1848Thoreau in Union Mag. Nov. 220/2 Only a few axe-men have gone ‘up river’ into the howling wilderness which feeds it. 1887Harper's Mag. Apr. 667/1 Logs were usually cut and hauled in summer-time to the banks of streams, often a long distance ‘up-river’. 1929Belloc Joan of Arc ii. 38 He had been all day up-river in the marshes shooting quail. 1981M. Nabb Death of Englishman i. i. 25 Upriver the ghost of the Ponte Vecchio..was straddling nothing. |