Hypertext Webster Gateway: "ufer"
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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