upharrow

English

Etymology

up- +‎ harrow

Verb

upharrow (third-person singular simple present upharrows, present participle upharrowing, simple past and past participle upharrowed)

1. (transitive, poetic, archaic) To tear up.
   • 1891, Tristan and Isolde: English Words to Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, page 2:

     To wildering height / upharrow the water! / Drive from its dreams / this slumbering sea!

   • 1995, Brooks Haxton, The Sun at Night: Poems, page 27:

     His grave will be upharrowed and left open.