Underset vs Underlet - What's the difference?
underset | underlet |
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 verbs the difference between underset and underlet
is that underset is to set under or beneath while underlet is to let below the value.As a noun underset
is undercurrent.underset
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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.
