Underset
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Underset is a verb meaning (transitive) To set under or beneath.
Meaning
(transitive) To set under or beneath.
More Meanings
- To prop or support.
- undercurrent (of water)
Example Sentences
being a company at that time , and well underset with rich men , and good order
Unless posts are underset in very steep mines they are apt to fall out before the pressure of the roof has tightened them. Posts are sometimes too much underset, owing to their being too long.
How it was shaped up with proper foreway and under-set for dished wheels, or how iron "clouts" (with "clout-nails") were carefully fitted into it to take the wear — is all but gone from my memory, as indeed it was hardly worth storing [...]
Word Forms
- undersets
- undersetting
- under-set
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include undersend, underdo, undersee, undergo, undercast, underdig.
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