underframework
An underlying or supportive framework or similar structure.
Noun
- An underlying or supportive framework or similar structure.
- No. 2 shows the cop of weft in its case in position for working, where it is retained by two smooth bowls of bosses fixed in their places on the stand or underframework of the loom. - 1915, Annual Report of the Board of...
- And a dangerous extracurricular activity had helped turn his muscles to iron: he “rode the rods” with other boys, clinging to the underframework of Union Pacific freight cars rumbling through Abilene. - 1970, published...
- He said at that time: I feel the deepest conviction that no sanitary system can be adequate to the requirements of the time or can cure those radical evils which infest the underframework of society unless the...
Origin
From under- + framework.