Adjective
Hung or suspended from above.
Usage- not-comparable
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Slidebars of the three-bar type are provided in conjunction with an underhung crosshead.
Having the lower jaw projecting.
Usage- not-comparable
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[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.
Of a sliding door: resting on a track at the bottom, instead of being suspended.
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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.
Adjective
supported from below especially resting on a track instead of suspended from above
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underhung sliding doors
having a lower part projecting beyond the upper
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an underhung jaw
undershot bulldog