Underset
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛt
Alternative forms
Origin
From Middle English undersetten, from Old English undersettan ("to put, place, or set under, put in the place of another, substitute, falsify, forge, counterfeit, place as a pledge, hypothecate, add, annex, subjoin, make subject, submit, set beneath, esteem less"), equivalent to - + set. Cognate with Dutch ondersetten ("to put beneath"), German untersetzen ("to put beneath, pin").
Full definition of underset
Verb
- (transitive) To set under or beneath.
- 1963, George Sturt, The Wheelwright's Shop: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 ...
- To prop or support.
- 1887, Arthur Robert Sawyer, Accidents in mines in the North Staffordshire coalfield arising from falls of roof and sides: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.