underhung

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adjective

Hung or suspended from above.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

adjectiveunderhung (not comparable)
  1. not comparableHung or suspended from above.

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

    1954 March, “New Class "9" 2-10-0 Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 166
  2. not comparableHaving the lower jaw projecting.

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

    1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, “The Subject Continued”, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 336
    1 more example

    [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.

    1859–1861, [Thomas Hughes], “A Row on the River”, in Tom Brown at Oxford: […], part 1st, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1861, →OCLC, page 23
  3. not comparableOf 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.

    1919, Marshall Monroe Kirkman, Cars, Their Construction and Handling, page 383

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivesupported from below especially resting on a track instead of suspended from above

Similar

adjectivehaving a lower part projecting beyond the upper

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

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