upstander

noun

up·​stand·​er

"+ə(r)

: one of the handlebars of a sledge

It was early March, full winter on the polar icepack. The thermometer lashed to the dogsled upstander read 36 degrees below zero. ...Periodically we’d jog behind the dogsled to warm up with our mittened hands grasping the upstanders.

—Walt Prothero, Sports Afield, November 2007

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