upstruck

English

Etymology

up- +‎ struck

Adjective

upstruck (not comparable)

  1. Protruding upwards.
    • 1915, Luggage and Leather Goods, volumes 35-36, page 488:
      The inventor claims: An umbrella attachment, comprising a tube haying a relatively shallow circumferential groove, a flange located at one side of the groove and having an upstruck peripheral portion, […]
    • 1964, Canadian Patent Office Record, volume 92, page 6334:
      […] an upper cradle, and an intermediate interconnecting leg support, said plate being in the form of a generally rectangular, elongated, sheet metal stamping having a pair of marginal upstruck reinforcing ribs along its side edges […]
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