underpeer

present singular third person underpeers · participle present underpeering · participle past underpeered · past underpeered

1. archaicTo look beneath something.

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   Midsommer pageants in London, where to make the people wonder, are set forth great and uglie gyants marching as if they were alive, and armed at all points, but within they are stuffed full of browne paper and tow, which the shrewd boyes, underpeering, do guilefully discover, and turne to a greate derision.

   1589, George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie, volume 3, page 128