Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To suspend; hang.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb To hang under or down; to suspend.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
suspend ;hang . - noun That which underhangs.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Most of the bridge has an underhang below the low-lying guard rail which makes it more difficult to just climb over and jump freely into the bay.
Fatal and Tragic Consequences sfmike 2006
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However, there are about a half dozen cute little "vista" balconies that jut out over the underhang see the picture above and fairly beckon the unstable to end it all spectacularly.
Fatal and Tragic Consequences sfmike 2006
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Most of the bridge has an underhang below the low-lying guard rail which makes it more difficult to just climb over and jump freely into the bay.
Archive 2006-05-01 sfmike 2006
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However, there are about a half dozen cute little "vista" balconies that jut out over the underhang see the picture above and fairly beckon the unstable to end it all spectacularly.
Archive 2006-05-01 sfmike 2006
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It was one of those one-story motels where you drive in under the underhang and pray that the rooms are somewhat clean.
heartbreak &triumph Trisia Tomanelli 2005
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It was one of those one-story motels where you drive in under the underhang and pray that the rooms are somewhat clean.
heartbreak &triumph Trisia Tomanelli 2005
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See Cal in the far underhang of the bushes, as all the Deadheads drift off to sleep.
Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002
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Above them, I saw the red glow of the Jewel, back beneath an underhang, brighter and steadier now, and the shadowy outline of the figure who wore it.
The Courts of Chaos Zelazny, Roger 1978
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