upride

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verb

to ride up (all senses)

Scrabble 9

Meanings

verbupride (third-person singular simple present uprides, present participle upriding, simple past uprode, past participle upridden)

present singular third person uprides · participle present upriding · past uprode · participle past upridden

  1. raretransitiveto ride up (all senses)

    But the storm abates — uprides the moon Like a ship upon the sea: Now on, my steeds! […]

    1852, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, The Postboy's Song
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    Through her sky-field insensibly she glides Among her star-flowers blooming in the night, Of all their crowd unconscious, till the hour When, as young Morn uprides […]

    1886, Henry Septimus Sutton, Poems

    Then gently uprode Gawain, And he spurred not his steed to gallop, nor conflict nor strife he sought […]

    1891, Wolfram (von Eschenbach.), Parzifal; A Knightly Epic - Volumes 1

    […] so shaping or tonguing the back and front lower borders of the bandage over the pelvic crest and sacral regions that the napkin can be easily pinned upon it and by its downward draw tend to prevent the inclination of the binder to upride.

    1905, The Dietetic & Hygienic Gazette - Volume 21

    As it is forced down, the arms, normally crossed over the chest, are caught on the pelvis and made to upride alongside the head.

    1910, Henry Enos Tuley, Obstetrical nursing, for nurses and students

    Whilst we were thus talking, there came up another youth of tenderer age, but of no less gracious mien, who bore news of the arrival of his father who had returned from overlooking his estate. And with that uprode the father himself followed by a groom and another servitor, also on horseback; and he dismounted and straightway came up the stair.

    1968, William Boulting, Tasso and His Times

Origin

  1. Middle Englishupriden
  2. Englishupride

From Middle English upriden, equivalent to up- + ride.

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