undercart

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noun

An aircraft's undercarriage.

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Meanings

nounundercart (plural undercarts)

plural undercarts

  1. An aircraft's undercarriage.

    I had just taken off with Red Two beside me and I had my head down in the cockpit at about two hundred feet as I got the undercart up, throttled back, and set the pitch.

    1955, Neville Shute, chapter 6, in The Breaking Wave, New York: William Morrow & Co
    1 more example

    […] I have flown about ten hours solo on the Yale, an intermediate trainer rather like the Harvard, but without a retractable undercart and with a 350 instead of 600 horsepower engine.

    1942, Hermann Hagedorn, chapter 5, in Sunward I’ve Climbed, New York: Macmillan

Origin

From under- + cart.

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APA

undercart. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/undercart

MLA

“undercart.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/undercart. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “undercart,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/undercart.

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