underhung

English

Etymology

From under- + hung.

Adjective

underhung (not comparable)

  1. Hung or suspended from above.
  2. Having the lower jaw projecting.
  3. Of a sliding door: resting on a track at the bottom, instead of being suspended.
    • 1919, Marshall Monroe Kirkman, Cars, Their Construction and Handling, page 383:
      Usually, [railroad] car doors slide on the top door-track, being then termed overhung doors; the underhung door being one supported and sliding on a rail below the door.
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