uplean

Verb

uplean (third-person singular simple present upleans, present participle upleaning, simple past and past participle upleant or upleaned)

1. (ambitransitive, literary) To lean or incline upward; to cause (something) to lean upward.
   • The western sky is wallen
     With shadowy mountains, built upon the marge
     Of the horizon, from eve’s purple sheen,
     And thin gray clouds, that daringly uplean
     Their silver cones upon the crimson verge
     Of the high zenith,1834, Albert Pike, “Sunset” in Prose Sketches and Poems Written in the Western Country, Boston: Light & Horton, pp. 192-193
   • I forced the slowly yielding door
     That ope’d on Sabbath morn no more,
     And found all that the winds withstood,
     Was an upleaning piece of wood.1856, Gold-Pen (pseudonym), “My Cottage” in Poems, Philadelphia: Lippincott, 2nd edition, pp. 188-189
2. (intransitive, obsolete, rare) 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 of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC