undercart
undercart noun: an aircraft's undercarriage.
Noun
undercart (plural undercarts)
- An aircraft's undercarriage.
- […] 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.1942, Hermann Hagedorn, chapter 5, in Sunward I’ve Climbed, New York: Macmillan
- 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.1955, Neville Shute, chapter 6, in The Breaking Wave, New York: William Morrow & Co
Forms of undercart
| plural | undercarts |
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Origin of undercart
From under- + cart.
Questions about undercart
- What does undercart mean?
- Undercart means an aircraft's undercarriage.
- What part of speech is undercart?
- Undercart is a noun.
- What is the plural of undercart?
- The plural of undercart is undercarts.
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