underbury

English

Etymology

From under- +‎ bury.

Verb

underbury (third-person singular simple present underburies, present participle underburying, simple past and past participle underburied)

1. (transitive, rare) To bury beneath; bury under.
   • 1864, “July 24. [Mint, Savoy, and May-Fair Marriages.]”, in R[obert] Chambers, editor, The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the Calendar, […], volume II, London, Edinburgh: W[illiam] & R[obert] Chambers, →OCLC, page 120, column 2:

     When the marriage act was mooted, Keith swore that he would revenge himself upon the bishops, by taking some acres of land for a burying-ground, and underburying them all.

   • 1907, Mining and Engineering World - Volume 26 - Page 531:

     The identification of faults, or fractures along which there has been movement is especially desirable, inasmuch as fractures of this type extend more deeply than others, and usually constitute the channels for the upward circulation of the original mineralized hot waters, volcanic vapors. etc., from the underburied igneous magmas, and for the descent of the impoverishing and enriching surface waters.

   • 1977, Margaret Baker, Wedding customs and folklore - Page 48:

     [...] he married sixty-one couples and, vowing eternal vengeance on bishops, bought several acres of land for burials, threatening to underbury them all.