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underdraughts

underdraughts is the plural of underdraught.

Meaning of underdraught

Noun

underdraught (countable and uncountable, plural underdraughts)

  1. A draught of air from underneath.
    • I noticed, too, that small radiating walls had been built out from the central mass, on which, allowing full underdraught, had been laid the outside coating of the central pyre, in shape of fagots and lighter fuel.1887, The Cornhill Magazine, volume 9, page 158
  2. The situation where part of a formed or cast shape has a reverse taper or inward‑leaning surface that makes it difficult to remove from the die or mold.

Questions about underdraughts

What is underdraughts the plural of?
Underdraughts is the plural of underdraught.

Words near underdraughts in the dictionary

  1. underdramatize
  2. underdramatized
  3. underdramatizes
  4. underdramatizing
  5. underdraught
  6. underdraughts
  7. underdraw
  8. underdrawers
  9. underdrawing
  10. underdrawings
  11. underdrawn

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