v. Orig. dial. [UP adv.1]
1. trans. To set (something) on its end; to turn end upwards; dial. to set (also refl., to get) on one’s feet.
1823. E. Moor, Suffolk Words, 460. Upinnd, to set a cask or any thing on its end.
1868. Rep. to Govt. U.S. Munitions War, 274. The bursting of a few shells … tearing, up-ending, and setting fire to the planking of the latter [deck].
1874. Bedford, Sailor’s Pocket Bk., 173. An approaching heavy sea may carry the boat away … and turn it broadside on, or up-end it.
1900. ‘H. Lawson,’ Over Sliprails, 29. It crawled to the wall, against which it slowly and painfully up-ended itself.
b. In pa. pple.: Sitting up.
1874. E. Waugh, Chimney Corner (1879), 123. I left him about two minutes sin’ up-ended i’ bed.
2. intr. To rise up on end.
1897. Kipling, Capt. Cour., 52. They up-eend thet way when they’re hungry.
1902. S. E. White, Blazed Trail, xxxii. A log in the advance up-ended; another thrust under it.
Hence Up-ended ppl. a.
1880. ‘Mark Twain,’ Tramp Abr., xlvii. 488. Propping them … with her up-ended valise.
1896. C. Allen, Papier Mâché, 121. The up-ended box whereon the student was perched.
