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underdraw

[ uhn-der-draw ]

verb (used with object)

underdrew, underdrawn, underdrawing.
  1. to line the underside of (a structure, as a floor) with plasterwork, boarding, or the like.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of underdraw1

First recorded in 1790–1800; under- + draw
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While some states overdraw, the others underdraw.

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Underdraw, un-dėr-draw′, v.t. to represent inadequately in art, or by words.

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Half-crippled already and at least one-third full of water, she was in no trim to dodge the underdraw of the sloping bows of an empty barge, at the worst hour of ebb-tide.

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They give no chance to the second man to leap into the boat, so deep has he to go, pushing on until the pads are out and the boat controlled; but he has barely time to feel the underdraw of the recoiling wave when the straight scour of a keel comes down along the sand and pebbles—the Ellen Jane, St. Sennans—half-pushed, half-borne by a crew three minutes have extemporised.

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