Word Meaning

Meaning of "underlay" and the crossword clue

- Mat Eastern laundry laundered
- Material beneath a carpet
- Pad placed below a carpet
- To lay beneath; to put under.
- To raise or support by something laid under; as, to underlay a cut, plate, or the like, for printing. See Underlay, n., 2.
- To put a tap on (a shoe).
- To incline from the vertical; to hade; -- said of a vein, fault, or lode.
- The inclination of a vein, fault, or lode from the vertical; a hade; -- called also underlie.
- A thickness of paper, pasteboard, or the like, placed under a cut, or stereotype plate, or under type, in the from, to bring it, or any part of it, to the proper height; also, something placed back of a part of the tympan, so as to secure the right impression.