upshoved

upshoved

English

Adjective

upshoved (not comparable)

1. (rare) Pushed upward.
   • (Can we date this quote by Thomas Carlyle and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     […] and the Doctor goes up to the celestial globe, studying the fixed stars through an upshoved window, […]

   • 1865, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (page 195)

     But being chiefly sections of younger rocks than ours, the Austrian diagrams exhibit a more disturbed surface, so far as regards faults and slips, snapped anticlinals, upshoved synclinals, lapped folds, […]

   • 2016, Darin Bradley, Totem

     […] the tidal pool between the great, upshoved rims of Aer's excavated valley.