† undercropv.
Obsolete.
transitive. To question stealthily; to sound.
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the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > interrogation > question, interrogate [verb (transitive)] > indirectly or cautiously
feel1425
undermine1574
sound1575
undercrop1596
to draw out1778
1596 S. Forman Autobiogr. & Diary (1849) 27 When I com home, Henry Pepper cam to me craftely to undercrop me.
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v.1596- to give a pain
- to give a pain in the etc
- to give a pain in the in the arse
- to give a pain in the neck
- to give a pass
- to give a pause
- to give a period to
- to give a person a backie
- to give a person a bloody nose
- to give a person a clean chit
- to give a person a credit for
- to give a person a dead leg
- to give a person a doing
- to give a person a etc seeing to
- to give a person a fall
- to give a person a foot
- to give a person a good seeing to
- to give a person a hand up
- to give a person a hard time
- to give a person a leg up
- to give a person a look-over
- to give a person a lookover
- to give a person a meeting
- to give a person a pain
- to give a person a pain in the etc