UPTHROW

upheaval, uplift, upthrow, upthrust

(noun) (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building)

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Verb

upthrow (third-person singular simple present upthrows, present participle upthrowing, simple past upthrew, past participle upthrown)

(archaic, poetic) To throw or cast upwards.

(geology, transitive) To throw up (a mass of material) from below, causing a fault.

(geology, intransitive, of a mass of material) To be thrown up from below, causing a fault.

Noun

upthrow (plural upthrows)

(geology) A fault in which a mass of material has been thrown up from below.

Anagrams

• throw up, throw-up, throwup

Source: Wiktionary

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Up*throw", v. t.

Definition: To throw up. Drayton.

Up"throw`, n. (Mining)

Definition: See Throw, n., 9.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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