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Definition of the day : « underpinning »
- noun supporting structure
- noun basis
- Of all the generation of rogues, he was least fitted to barter away his underpinning.
- Extract from : « Dwellers in the Hills » by Melville Davisson Post
- If your underpinning is all right it is not difficult to be straight above.
- Extract from : « Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts » by Girl Scouts
- After its underpinning in 1888 a thorough repair of it was undertaken.
- Extract from : « Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester » by G. H. Palmer
- For the moment he fancied that he would jerk bodily from off his underpinning.
- Extract from : « The Day's Work, Volume 1 » by Rudyard Kipling
- The Cat, or Sow, was in constant use for mining and underpinning walls.
- Extract from : « British Castles » by Charles H. Ashdown
- In fact, the use of underpinning at that time seems to have been uncommon.
- Extract from : « Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony » by George Francis Dow
- The swift current tugged at the underpinning, threatening to carry it away.
- Extract from : « The Wishing Well » by Mildred A. Wirt
- With Penny holding the board, Mr. Parker nailed it to the underpinning.
- Extract from : « The Clock Strikes Thirteen » by Mildred A. Wirt
- As to the length of his underpinning, that was apparent also.
- Extract from : « Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 » by James Barnes
- Your way of underpinning the track is pretty good, but I don't like that plan.
- Extract from : « The Girl From Keller's » by Harold Bindloss