What is "up-end"

Usage examples of "up-end".

It was then we saw our first manyatta, a complete village of pigmy huts like up-ended wicker baskets.

Now, as it came into view through the veils of rain, it looked a shabby place, the roughcast of the walls blotched and peeling, the unthatched stacks of bog-hay sagging drunkenly, and a disconsolate up-ended cart with a broken shaft blocking one of the windows.

Nookomis up-ended a deerskin bag and poured a mixture of dried fish pieces and manomin parched in deer grease onto three stiffened pieces of hide.

Summer sunshine defined alike ranks of unbudgingly Victorian mercantile buildings broken at irregular intervals by vast up-ended waffle-irons.

He took a new half-gallon can from a rack, punched a pouring spout into its top, and brought it back to the tractor, where he took off the filler cap and up-ended the can over the transmission.

It looked innocuous enough, a slim up-ended trunk, nothing like as pretty as the gramophones, but Pierre had a devious habit of brushing past it and switching it on without anybody noticing so it recorded three minutes of inane conversation.

As he had made his way on foot, past enormous, scavenger-ready drill units, gross tonnage excavators, up-ended conveyor lines, and surrounding slag heaps, then into the midst of the shabby plastoid buildings that had become by default the planet's only inhabited zone, it had struck him that even the dirt and rocks here were of an inferior quality.

He was coming up without the Matabele gang to help run the skip over the bars and up-end its burden of gravel into the chute, down which it would be carried to the waiting cart.

There was a rough wooden table and chair, an old metal filing cabinet and an old tea chest up-ended to make a crude table which was scattered with little metal cups, a battered silver coffee pot and an earthenware bowl full of fruit.

On the farther side of the room a tea chest had been up-ended to serve as a display plinth.

He and another began to move downstream, carefully examining both banks and casually sur mounting up-ended coffin-sized boulders with no effort.

He and another began to move downstream, carefully examining both banks and casually surmounting up-ended barge-sized boulders with no effort.

Though that safeguard was not yet complete—logs were still waiting to be up-ended and set into place to close its perimeter.

Here you are, in a big house, in a lady's boudoir, with a woman of uneasy virtue,' Madam up-ended the bottle into what appeared to be a blue mug with a teddy bear on it, 'and you appear unfussed.