underdrag

English

Etymology

From under- +‎ drag.

Noun

underdrag (usually uncountable, plural underdrags)

  1. (geology) The tensile stress exerted by an overthrust rock mass upon overlying rocks which themselves are not under compressive thrusting stress and therefore tend to be stretched and broken by normal faulting.

Verb

underdrag (third-person singular simple present underdrags, present participle underdragging, simple past and past participle underdragged)

  1. (transitive) To exert pull on the underside of (something).
  2. (intransitive) To undergo a pull from the underside.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for underdrag in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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