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Definition of underset

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To set under or beneath.
    “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 [...]”
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verb

  1. (transitive)To set under or beneath.
    “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 [...]”
  2. To prop or support.
    “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.”

noun

  1. undercurrent (of water)

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle English undersetten, from Old English undersettan (“to put, place, or set under, put in the place of another, substitute, falsify, forge, counterfeit, place as a pledge, hypothecate, add, annex, subjoin, make subject, submit, set beneath, esteem less”), equivalent to under- + set. Cognate with Dutch ondersetten (“to put beneath”), German untersetzen (“to put beneath, pin”).

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7-letter words

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5-letter words

73 words

4-letter words

66 words

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