[UP- 8. Cf. Icel. upp-standari.] spec. One of two upright posts on a sledge.
1856. Kane, Arct. Expl., II. x. 98. It has two standards, or, as we call them, ‘up-standers.’ Ibid., xiv. 142. We ran beside our sledges, clinging to the upstanders.
1903. Peary, in McClure’s Mag., Feb., 419/2. I had scarcely time to seize the upstanders when my dogs were off.
