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单词 understrike
释义 underˈstrike, v.
[under-1 4 a, b.]
1. trans. To let down (the sails of a ship). Obs.
1615Chapman Odyss. xvi. 474 Amphinomus in port display'd The ship arrived, her sails then under-stroke.
2. To strike (from) below.
1844Mrs. Browning Lady Geraldine's Courtship xlvii, For the root of some grave earnest thought is understruck so rightly As [etc.].
Hence ˈunderˌstriking ppl. a.
1880A. J. Hipkins in Grove Dict. Mus. II. 647/1 For understriking grand pianos..and for upright pianos.Ibid. 712/1 Both overstriking and understriking apparatus.
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