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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Upher  \Up"her\,  n.  (Arch.) 
  A  fir  pole  of  from  four  to  seven  inches  diameter,  and  twenty 
  to  forty  feet  long,  sometimes  roughly  hewn,  used  for 
  scaffoldings,  and  sometimes  for  slight  and  common  roofs,  for 
  which  use  it  is  split.  [Spelt  also  {ufer}.]  [Eng.]  --Gwilt. 

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