undercart

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English

Etymology

under- +‎ cart

Noun

undercart (plural undercarts)

  1. An aircraft's undercarriage.
    • 1942, Hermann Hagedorn, Sunward I’ve Climbed, New York: Macmillan, Chapter 5,[1]
      [] I have flown about ten hours solo on the Yale, an intermediate trainer rather like the Harvard, but without a retractable undercart and with a 350 instead of 600 horsepower engine.
    • 1955, Neville Shute, The Breaking Wave, New York: William Morrow & Co., Chapter 6,[2]
      I had just taken off with Red Two beside me and I had my head down in the cockpit at about two hundred feet as I got the undercart up, throttled back, and set the pitch.