underset — Английский словарь

Глагол

1. To set under or beneath.

   Употребление

   • переходный глагол

   Примеры

   Другие примеры (1)

   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.

   Примеры

   being a company at that time , and well underset with rich men , and good order

   Другие примеры (1)

   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.

Существительное

1. undercurrent (of water)