upleap
To leap up; spring up.
Verb
- To leap up; spring up.
- [F]rom his nook upleapt the venturous lad, / And flinging wide the cedar-carven door / Beheld an awful image saffron-clad / And armed for battle! - 1881, Oscar Wilde, “Charmides”, in Poems, London: David Bogue, […],...
Origin
From Middle English uplepen, equivalent to up- + leap. Cognate with Dutch oplopen (“to incur, run up”), German auflaufen (“to accumulate, mount up, run aground”).