Meaning

(of a windmill) Having the gearing that turns the millstone beneath the floor..

Definitions by Sense

1. (of a windmill) Having the gearing that turns the millstone beneath the floor.
2. An underlying meaning that is not made explicit.
3. Synonym of undertow.

Example Sentences

The overdrift method in smock mills may be seen at Punnetts Town, and the underdrift at Shipley.

In an overdrift mill this gear is mounted on the quant, in an underdrift mill on the stone spindle.

For cleanliness, experienced millers prefer an 'overdrift' mill (as, indeed windmills should be, for lightness and efficiency of driving gears), because underdrift gearing becomes very dirty and clogged with a compound of meal dust and grease, besides being generally inaccessible for repairs and adjustments.

Now, Lydia, looking two ways, seemed to see double, but even she did not discover the subtle underdrift which gave this poem a distinct meaning for two persons.

Paris then stands for art, for merriment, for laughter, music and song ; and, forgetting the pathetic underdrifts, we look with eager eyes on the bright examples which reach us from her salons and parlors, ...

Both tragedies are carried on a strong underdrift of sex, but in the second play the sex impulse, though it works, has lost its charm.

They articulate a powerful underdrift of covenant theology toward the very ambiguity that provoked Hutchinson to charge Bulkeley and his colleagues with preaching a doctrine of works under the guise of grace.

This underdrift, a mode of speech in which the words that constitue conversation are only tenuously connected to a deeper layer, is a significant feature of Indian speech.

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• underdrifts

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Use underdrift when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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