understrikev.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of sails, spars, or rigging > carry specific amount of sail [verb (transitive)] > strike or take in (sails) > lower (sail)
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?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) xvi. 474 Amphinomus in port display'd The ship arrived, her sails then under-stroke.
2. To strike (from) below.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > strike [verb (transitive)] > strike in or from specific direction
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1844 E. B. Barrett Lady Geraldine's Courtship in Poems I. 228 For the root of some grave earnest thought is understruck so rightly As to justify the foliage and the waving flowers above.
Derivatives
ˈunderˌstriking adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > stringed keyboards > [adjective] > types of piano
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1880 A. J. Hipkins in Grove Dict. Music II. 647/1 For understriking grand pianos..and for upright pianos.
1880 A. J. Hipkins in Grove Dict. Music II. 712/1 Both overstriking and understriking apparatus.
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