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Underset vs Undersetter - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between underset and undersetter

is that underset is undercurrent while undersetter is one who, or that which, undersets or supports; a prop; a support; a pedestal.

As a verb underset

is to set under or beneath.

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Alternative forms

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Verb

  • To set under or beneath.
  • *1963 , George Sturt, The Wheelwright's Shop :
  • 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 [...]
  • To prop or support.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • *1887 , Arthur Robert Sawyer, Accidents in mines in the North Staffordshire coalfield arising from falls of roof and sides :
  • 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.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • undercurrent
  • Anagrams

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    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who, or that which, undersets or supports; a prop; a support; a pedestal.