underlayer

English

Etymology

under- +‎ layer

Noun

underlayer (plural underlayers)

1. A layer that is below another layer.

   Synonyms: substrate, substratum

2. (mining) A perpendicular shaft sunk to cut the lode at any required depth.

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3. One who underlays.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “underlayer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Verb

underlayer (third-person singular simple present underlayers, present participle underlayering, simple past and past participle underlayered)

1. To form a layer beneath another

Anagrams

• unreaderly