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The base frame of a motor car, with its mechanism, as distinguished from the body or upper part; also, in an aeroplane.
Applied to the under part of the fuselage of an aeroplane. Hence belly-landing, a crash-landing of an aeroplane on its belly without use of the…
transferred, esp. of motor vehicles. Cf. underbody, n. 2 3b.