Sekirov Dictionary

upthrow

verb 3
noun 1
forms 4

verb3

To throw up (a mass of material) from below, causing a fault.
To be thrown up from below, causing a fault.
•
(literary, no longer used) To throw or cast upwards.
- For fifty tons of water were upthrown / By them per hour [...]. — 1819

noun1

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

forms

upthrew · upthrown · upthrowing · upthrows

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