The Collaborative International Dictionary
Upshoot
Upshoot \Up*shoot"\, v. i.
To shoot upward. ``Trees upshooting high.''
--Spenser.
Wiktionary
upshoot
vb. (context intransitive English) To shoot upward.
Usage examples of "upshoot".
The low dive that Croak took to avoid what he thought was the down-coming top, carried him beneath the bottom of the upshooting floor.
And if that growth has resembled the sudden upshooting of a mushroom, if it must fall because it is premature, it is nevertheless real and must have tremendous effect on all that follows.
Plate glass and traffic lights and upshooting rectangular masses, square-cut valleys of busy concrete, and it was all precisely ranged, as if awaiting a push, on a steep slope down to the river.