rear up

English

Etymology

• rear + up

Verb

rear up (third-person singular simple present rears up, present participle rearing up, simple past and past participle reared up)

1. To rise up, especially an animal like a horse rising up on its rear legs.
   • [1877], Anna Sewell, “A Strike for Liberty”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part II, page 106:

     She had a good idea of what was coming, and the moment York took the rein off the terret in order to shorten it, she took her opportunity, and reared up so suddenly, that York had his nose roughly hit, and his hat knocked off; […]

Translations

to rise up on the hind legs - usually referring to a horse

• German: sich aufbäumen
• Maori: tānapu
• Swedish: stegra sig (sv)

Anagrams

• parure, uprear