Etymology
Origin of underpart
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The top of his head struck stunningly against the underpart of the ice-sheet.
From Lad: A Dog by Albert Payson Terhune
Luckily I've got my name and address scratched on the underpart of the frame, if the finder only takes the trouble to look.
From The Aeroplane Boys on the Wing Aeroplane Chums in the Tropics by John Luther Langworthy
The exposition, however, that I have made of the errors and defects of other writers, is only an incident, or underpart, of the scheme of this treatise.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
We had the underpart of the slab on our side, and I did not think of looking when we took it down.
From On the Irrawaddy A Story of the First Burmese War by William Heysham Overend
A deep shining plumbeous black on the upper part, becoming paler near the belly, which from the underpart of the jaw to the perineum is ashy-grey, with irregular spots and blotches.
From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale
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