Underbet vs Underset - What's the difference?
underbet | underset |
(poker) a bet which is smaller than standard for a given situation
:Since the pot contained $1,000, James $10 bet was an underbet .
(poker) to bet a smaller amount than is standard for a given situation
:James underbet by betting only $10 into a $1,000 pot
To set under or beneath.
*1963 , George Sturt, The Wheelwright's Shop :
To prop or support.
*1887 , Arthur Robert Sawyer, Accidents in mines in the North Staffordshire coalfield arising from falls of roof and sides :
As nouns the difference between underbet and underset
is that underbet is (poker) a bet which is smaller than standard for a given situation while underset is undercurrent.As verbs the difference between underbet and underset
is that underbet is (poker) to bet a smaller amount than is standard for a given situation while underset is to set under or beneath.underbet
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- 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 [...]
- (Francis Bacon)
- 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.
