Up-end

Full definition of up-end

1981, Horst Ruthrof, The Reader's Construction of Narrative, We see his shoulders strain as he up-ends the coffin and slides it single-handed from the saw-horses.
2001, Jonathan Francis Bennett, Learning from Six Philosophers: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume Chapter Chapter 3: Descarte's Physics, Take a long tube full of mercury and up-end it with its open end in a pool of mercury, and, Torricelli found, some but not all of the mercury flows out of the tube
2007, Bonnie Kime Scott, Gender in Modernism: New Geographies, Complex Intersections, She turned on all the lights, swung the closed suitcase up to the table, shoved the table against the wall, up-ended the suitcase so that its leather side presented a smooth surface, and propped a firm sheet of white cardboar against the inpromptu rack.