upwaft

English

Etymology

up- +‎ waft

Verb

upwaft (third-person singular simple present upwafts, present participle upwafting, simple past and past participle upwafted)

1. (archaic, poetic, intransitive) To waft upward.
   • 1791, Homer, W[illiam] Cowper, transl., The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC:

     from the plain
     Upwafted by the winds the smoke aspired

References

“upwaft”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.