underneath

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The trenches are made passable by being floored with a wooden pathway which runs on piles--underneath which is the gutter of water and mud which is the real floor of the trench.

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  1. adverb In or to a place beneath; below.
  2. adverb On the lower face or underside.
  3. preposition Under; below; beneath.
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  • He couldn't believe it, but the name underneath was conclusive. —  R. D. Wingfield - Frost at Christmas
  • On the right of the door an unpretentious bronze plaque bore the name of the Hospital Management Committee which administered the unit and, underneath, the words, “The Steen Clinic”. —  A Mind to Murder-P D James-Dalgiesh 02
  • The ashes took long to clear away, and underneath was the oxhide, charred and shrivelled. —  The Red Romance Book
  • With this they can cut through the cloth any where if they feel a purse underneath, and take it out without your knowing any thing about it till you get home I declare!" —  Rollo in London
  • The title underneath was 'Innocents I did not see my friend for a week or so after that, and when I did I did not think at first to ask about the pictures. —  Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English undernethe, from Old English underneothan : under, under; see under + neothan, below; see beneath.

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  1. from Middle English underneth, undernethe, undirnethe, undernethen (= Danish underneden); from under + nethe as in nether, and in comp. aneath, beneath: see nether.
 

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