uptoss

present singular third person uptosses · participle present uptossing · participle past uptossed · past uptossed

1. transitiveTo toss up.

   […] and brasses reflective Gleam in the sun, and away to the clouds uptoss the refulgence: […]

   1888, Virgil's Æneid

2. intransitiveTo be tossed up.

   The boat drew closer and closer, hurling along through the seething green like a thing alive, lifting and sending and uptossing across the huge-backed breakers, or disappearing behind them only to rush into sight again […]

   1904, The Century

plural uptosses

1. A tossing up.

   Sometimes its sky line was broken by an uptoss from some one overpowering blast.

   1917, Collier's: incorporating features of the American magazine

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   You can see even the smallest animals, such as porcupines and ground hogs, over a mile away, and the first step of a bear, or the first uptoss of a deer's head is seen instantly.

   1922, Charles Hallock, William A. Bruette, Forest and Stream

2. That which is tossed up.