underhead
/ˈʌndə(ɹ)hɛd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The base of a railroad track.
adj
Beneath the head of a mechanical component.
adj
Such that the train track goes over the pathway of cars or pedestrians.
adj
adv
In an underhead location.
Example Sentences
- "wiser discretions, that have the thread of reason to conduct them, offend without a pardon; whereas underheads may stumble without dishonour."
- "Well, booby, what's that to you, underhead?"
- "Data in the column headed "Underhead" are demerit ratings related to the degree of darkening of the underhead. A rating of 0 indicates a completely black underhead, while a rating of 10 indicates a completely clean underhead."
- "The valves were removed from the engine at 25 hour intervals and zyglo inspected for cracks in the underhead and stem."
- "Other important tasks accomplished were the removal of the neutron shield tanks, decontamination of the reactor building air coolers, closed-circuit television inspection of the 282 ft. elevation, raising and parking of all eight axial-power-shaping rod leadscrews, and first steps toward a complete characterization of radiological conditions of the reactor-vessel underhead."
- "The shape of the underhead is very important: it determines the tightness of the reversed bucktail and the shape of the finished head."