upcrawl

verb

upcrawl

verb

Etymology From up- + crawl.

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Archaic, Poetic To crawl upward.

Behold his venal brain bared to our gaze, / See the base thoughts which worm-like there upcrawl, / Countless and teeming from their burrow's maze; […]1883, William J. Coughlin, Songs of an Idle Hour, page 47:

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