underhung

adj

1. (not-comparable)Hung or suspended from above.

   “Slidebars of the three-bar type are provided in conjunction with an underhung crosshead.”

2. (not-comparable)Having the lower jaw projecting.

   “[H]e was marked with small-pox, had large features, high cheek-bones, deeply set eyes, and a very long chin; and had got the trick which many underhung men have of compressing the upper lip.”

   “His jaw was underhung, and when he laughed, two white buck-teeth protruded themselves and glistened savagely in the midst of the grin.”

3. (not-comparable)Of a sliding door: resting on a track at the bottom, instead of being suspended.

   “Usually, [railroad] car doors slide on the top door-track, being then termed overhung doors; the underhung door being one supported and sliding on a rail below the door.”