What is "upthrown"

Usage examples of "upthrown".

Some of the splashes were close enough to the destroyers for the upthrown seawater to drench the men aboard.

A man sprawled in the clotted mud with a dented helm and bloody mail—his face concealed behind an upthrown arm.

The rattle of upthrown pebbles on the hull died away as Ortega cut the engines to idle.

The flood wave itself couldn’t be seen beyond the screen of tossing trees that fringed the mouth of the gorge, but Uhura could see a churning mass of upthrown trees, rocks, and debris exploding far above the mountain’s shoulder.

The curved blade, red in the morn­ing sun, sliced down through the bandit's suddenly upthrown left arm almost as though there were no bone there, only flesh, and landed solidly in the bend of the bandit's sword arm, neatly cutting the forearm away and spraying red blood into the morning light, the bandit's sword tip coming within a handsbreath of Casca's face before falling away.