Crossword clues for underrun
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Underrun \Un`der*run"\, v. t. To run or pass under; especially (Naut.), to pass along and under, as a cable, for the purpose of taking it in, or of examining it.
Note: The cable passes over the bows and stern of the boat
used, while the men haul the boat along by pulling upon
the cable.
--Totten.
To underrun a hose (Naut.), to lift it up at one end, then walk along shifting one hand after another so that the water will run out.
To underrun a tackle (Naut.), to separate its parts and put them in order.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context accounting English) A condition in which fewer products are delivered or produced than had been ordered. 2 (context computing English) A condition in which the read/write buffer is fed with data at a slower rate than required; a http://en.wikipedi
org/wiki/buffer%20underrun. v
1 To run or pass under. 2 (context nautical English) To pass along and under, e.g. a cable, for the purpose of taking it in or examining it. 3 (context nautical English) To separate the parts of (a tackle) and put them in order.
Usage examples of "underrun".
The sole was a ragged, sodden mass with a stinking exudation oozing from the underrun horn, but what really bewildered me was the series of growths sprouting from every crevice.
When we caught the wind we were soon on our seaward course, and only stopped to underrun a trawl, for the floats of which Mrs.
The moonlight turns the lower strata to silver without a stain except where our shadow underruns us.
Her voice had an underrunning current of harshness, which was perhaps age.
It is there that the underrunning streams become charged with sediment, which, as we have noted, they bear in surprising quantities, and it is therefore in this section of the valley that the impress of the ice work is the strongest.
An ill day for all of us if the sleeping wake—there will be more than Trias overrunning, or underrunning this land.