upride

English

Etymology

From Middle English upriden, equivalent to up- +‎ ride.

Verb

upride (third-person singular simple present uprides, present participle upriding, simple past uprode, past participle upridden)

1. (rare, transitive) to ride up (all senses)
   • 1852, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, The Postboy's Song:

     But the storm abates — uprides the moon
     Like a ship upon the sea: Now on, my steeds! […]

   • 1886, Henry Septimus Sutton, Poems:

     Through her sky-field insensibly she glides
     Among her star-flowers blooming in the night,
     Of all their crowd unconscious, till the hour
     When, as young Morn uprides […]

   • 1891, Wolfram (von Eschenbach.), Parzifal; A Knightly Epic - Volumes 1:

     Then gently uprode Gawain,
     And he spurred not his steed to gallop, nor conflict nor strife he sought […]

   • 1905, The Dietetic & Hygienic Gazette - Volume 21:

     […] so shaping or tonguing the back and front lower borders of the bandage over the pelvic crest and sacral regions that the napkin can be easily pinned upon it and by its downward draw tend to prevent the inclination of the binder to upride.

   • 1910, Henry Enos Tuley, Obstetrical nursing, for nurses and students:

     As it is forced down, the arms, normally crossed over the chest, are caught on the pelvis and made to upride alongside the head.

   • 1968, William Boulting, Tasso and His Times:

     Whilst we were thus talking, there came up another youth of tenderer age, but of no less gracious mien, who bore news of the arrival of his father who had returned from overlooking his estate. And with that uprode the father himself followed by a groom and another servitor, also on horseback; and he dismounted and straightway came up the stair.

   • 2003, Sureshwar Pandey, Anil Kumar Pandey, Clinical Orthopaedic Diagnosis:

     If the tip of the trochanter is upridden, then the lines will converge on that side.

Anagrams

• Purdie, ride up