upsteal

English

Etymology

up- +‎ steal

Verb

upsteal (third-person singular simple present upsteals, present participle upstealing, simple past upstole, past participle upstolen)

1. (poetic, intransitive) To steal or creep upward.
   • 1905, Bliss Carman, Poems, volume 2, page 212:

     […] Or the potter, from whose wheel / Fair and finished shapes upsteal, / As by magic of command, / Guided by the loving hand.

   • 1901, Thomas Hardy, A Commonplace Day:

     Yet, maybe, in some soul, / In some spot undiscerned on sea or land, some impulse rose, / Or some intent upstole / Of that enkindling ardency from whose maturer glows / The world's amendment flows.

Anagrams

• pulsate, puteals, septula, spatule