understroke

A lower or underlining stroke in writing.

Adjective

  1. Being or relating to an upstrike typewriter.
    • Later in his life Tolstoy was given a Remington understroke typewriter but his spirituality did not incline him to use labor-saving machines. - 2021, Steve Hickey, Second Tolstoy: The Sermon on the Mount as Theo-tactics:

    Coordinate Terms: frontstroke

Origin

From under- + stroke.

Noun

  1. A lower or underlining stroke in writing.

Forms

understrokes

Verb

  1. To underline or underscore.
    • You have understroked that offensive word, to show it should be printed in italic. - 1733 March 20, letter to Catherine Hyde, Jonathan Swift:

Forms

understrokes understroking understroked