UPPERS

Noun

uppers

plural of upper

The parts of a pair of shoes that do not normally contact the ground.

Anagrams

• Ruppes, supper

Source: Wiktionary

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UPPER

Up"per, a.; comp. of Up.

Definition: Being further up, literally or figuratively; higher in place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper lip; the upper side of a thing; the upper house of a legislature. The upper hand, the superiority; the advantage. See To have the upper hand, under Hand. Jowett (Thucyd.).

– Upper Bench (Eng. Hist.), the name of the highest court of common law (formerly King's Bench) during the Commonwealth.

– Upper case, the top one of a pair of compositor's cases. See the Note under 1st Case, n., 3.

– Upper covert (Zoöl.), one of the coverts situated above the bases of the tail quills.

– Upper deck (Naut.), the topmost deck of any vessel; the spar deck.

– Upper leather, the leather for the vamps and quarters of shoes.

– Upper strake (Naut.), the strake next to the deck, usually of hard wood, and heavier than the other strakes.

– Upper ten thousand, or (abbreviated) Upper ten, the ten thousand, more or less, who are highest in position or wealth; the upper class; the aristocracy. [Colloq.] -- Upper topsail (Naut.), the upper half of a double topsail.

– Upper works (Naut.), all those parts of the hull of a vessel that are properly above water.

– Upper world. (a) The atmosphere. (b) Heaven. (c) This world; the earth; -- in distinction from the underworld.

Up"per, n.

Definition: The upper leather for a shoe; a vamp.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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