uplean

verb

Etymology

From up- + lean.

  1. derived from *ḱley-
  2. inherited from *hlināną
  3. inherited from *hlinēn
  4. inherited from hleonian
  5. inherited from lenen
  6. prefixed as uplean — “up + lean

Definitions

  1. To lean or incline upward

    To lean or incline upward; to cause (something) to lean upward.

    • 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 more.
  2. To lean (on something).

    • With that vpleaning on her elbow weake, Her alablaster brest she soft did kis,
    • […] thus his carelesse time This shepheard driues, vpleaning on his batt, And on shrill reedes chaunting his rustick rime,

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA