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underbuilding

noun

Etymology

From underbuild (“to build beneath, lay a foundation for”), equivalent to underbuild + -ing.

  1. inherited from *bʰuH-✻
  2. derived from *buþlą✻
  3. inherited from *buþlijan✻ — “to build”
  4. inherited from byldan
  5. inherited from bilden
  6. prefixed as underbuild — “under + build”
  7. suffixed as underbuilding — “underbuild + ing”

Definitions

  1. A substructure

    A substructure; foundation; infrastructure.

    • It appears from the evidence that although the Dean of Guild authorities considered the defective underbuilding to have been sufficient to warrant the demolition of the wall, it must have otherwise been in a weak and decayed condition.
    • The rubble concrete underbuilding has a uniform thickness of 5 feet, where the depth is less than 10 feet, but for greater depths the underbuilding is 6 feet thick at the top.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA