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▪ I. underˈlayer1
[f. prec. Cf. Du. onderlegger, G. unterleger.]
†1. An underlying part or thing; a base or support. Obs.
In quot. 1609 applied allusively to a woman.
a1592Greene & Lodge Looking Gl. i. ii. 255 The Nutmeg..is, saith one Ballad,..an vnderlayer to the braines. 1609Ev. Woman in Hum. i. i, Ist not some vnderlayer, some she Cammell that will beare as much of her belly, as three beastes on their backes? 1702Boyer Dict. Royal ii, Under⁓layer,..(a piece of Wood to shore up any thing,) une Etaye, un Etançon. 1775Ash, Underlayer.., that which is laid under to bear up any thing.
†2. A cobbler. Obs.—1
1692R. L'Estrange Fables i. cccci. 375 How many Under⁓layers,..when they could not live upon their Trade, have rais'd themselves from Cobbling to Fluxing?
3. Mining. ‘A perpendicular shaft sunk to cut the lode at any required depth.’
1850Weale Dict. Terms.
▪ II. ˈunderˌlayer2
[under-1 5 b.]
A lower layer; a substratum.
1896Daily News 15 Dec. 2/2 The carpets are of heavy velvet pile on an underlayer of elastic felt and cork. 1904W. P. Ker Dark Ages 198 Rodulphus represents the permanent underlayer of medieval absurdity above which Gerbert rises so eminently. |