uplean

Verb

1. To lean or incline upward; to cause (something) to lean upward.
   • 1834, Albert Pike, “Sunset” in Prose Sketches and Poems Written in the Western Country, Boston: Light & Horton, pp. 192-193, The western sky is wallen With shadowy mountains, built upon the marge Of the horizon, from...
   • 1856, Gold-Pen (pseudonym), “My Cottage” in Poems, Philadelphia: Lippincott, 2nd edition, pp. 188-189, I forced the slowly yielding door That ope’d on Sabbath morn no more, And found all that the winds withstood, Was an...
   • 1895, Orelia Key Bell, “And every morning as I passed her bower” in Poems, Philadelphia: Rodgers, p. 181, […] that liquid cadency Seep’d thro’ the casement to the birds and me, Who upleaning drank, and drinking upleaned...
2. To lean (on something).
   • With that vpleaning on her elbow weake, / Her alablaster brest she soft did kis, - 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 322:
   • […] thus his carelesse time / This shepheard driues, vpleaning on his batt, / And on shrill reedes chaunting his rustick rime, - 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Virgils Gnat”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes...