[UP- 2.]
1. An upward leap or spring.
1876. Miss Broughton, Joan, I. xxxiii. The fire giving one sudden upleap,… plays upon his face.
1885. ‘E. F. Byrrne’ (Emma Frances Brooke), Entangled, III. II. xviii. 140. This upleap of wild regret … was not dependent upon reason.
2. Mining. (See quot.)
1883. Gresley, Gloss. Coal-m., 268. Up-leap, a fault which appears as an up-throw.
