Underlay

[ʌndə'leɪ] or ['ʌndɚle]

Definition

(verb.) provide with a base, support, lining, or backing; 'underlay the boards with joists'.

(verb.) put (something) under or beneath; 'They underlaid the shingles with roofing paper'.

(verb.) raise or support (the level of printing) by inserting a piece of paper or cardboard under the type; 'underlay the plate'.

Edited by Daniel--From WordNet

Definition

(v. t.) To lay beneath; to put under.

(v. t.) To raise or support by something laid under; as, to underlay a cut, plate, or the like, for printing. See Underlay, n., 2.

(n.) To put a tap on (a shoe).

(v. i.) To incline from the vertical; to hade; -- said of a vein, fault, or lode.

(n.) The inclination of a vein, fault, or lode from the vertical; a hade; -- called also underlie.

(n.) 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.

Checked by Dale

Definition

v.t. to lay under or to support by something laid under.—v.i. to incline from the perpendicular.—n. Un′derlay a piece of paper pasted under woodcuts stereotype plates &c. in a form to bring them up to the necessary level for printing.—n. Underlay′er one who underlays.

Editor: Pedro