Upturn v. t. To turn up; to direct upward; to throw up; as, to upturn the ground in plowing. "A sea of upturned faces.""So scented the grim feature, and upturned His nostril wide into the murky air."
... the dark avail? Look thou to that! If aught have worth, it cometh to the light. Who can detect the rogue at dead of night? Black are the cows, and gray is every cat. These pots of heavy gold, if they be there— Come, drive thy plough, upturn them ... — The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, • Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke