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Underhung

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Hung or suspended from above. not-comparable

    "Slidebars of the three-bar type are provided in conjunction with an underhung crosshead."

  2. 2
    Having the lower jaw projecting. not-comparable

    "[H]e was marked with small-pox, had large features, high cheek-bones, deeply set eyes, and a very long chin; and had got the trick which many underhung men have of compressing the upper lip."

  3. 3
    Of a sliding door: resting on a track at the bottom, instead of being suspended. not-comparable

    "Usually, [railroad] car doors slide on the top door-track, being then termed overhung doors; the underhung door being one supported and sliding on a rail below the door."

Adjective
  1. 1
    having a lower part projecting beyond the upper wordnet
  2. 2
    supported from below especially resting on a track instead of suspended from above wordnet

Etymology

From under- + hung.

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