upcrawl

English

Etymology

up- +‎ crawl

Verb

upcrawl (third-person singular simple present upcrawls, present participle upcrawling, simple past and past participle upcrawled)

1. (intransitive, poetic, archaic) To crawl upward.
   • 1883, William J. Coughlin, Songs of an Idle Hour, page 47:

     Behold his venal brain bared to our gaze, / See the base thoughts which worm-like there upcrawl, / Countless and teeming from their burrow's maze; […]