"underframework" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1915, Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institute, page 677",
          "text": "No. 2 shows the cop of weft in its case in position for working, where it is retained by two smooth bowls of bosses fixed in their places on the stand or underframework of the loom.",
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          "ref": "1970, published 2008, Colonel Red Reeder, Dinosaurs A to Z",
          "text": "And a dangerous extracurricular activity had helped turn his muscles to iron: he “rode the rods” with other boys, clinging to the underframework of Union Pacific freight cars rumbling through Abilene.",
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          "ref": "1970, Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, page 907",
          "text": "He said at that time: I feel the deepest conviction that no sanitary system can be adequate to the requirements of the time or can cure those radical evils which infest the underframework of society unless the importance be distinctly recognized, and the duly manfully undertaking, of improving the social condition of the poor.",
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          "ref": "1999, Harold James Dyos, Michael Wolff, The Victorian City: Images and Realities, volume 1, page 94",
          "text": "As for the dedicated non-experts, they were moving again from urban detail to more general schemes of social regeneration, to the nature of what Sir John Simon had called earlier in the century the 'underframework of society', from issues related to municipal action within the particular city to national welfare policy which would iron out some of the differences between cities.",
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          "ref": "2000, Alfred Vincent Kidder, An Introduction to the Study of Southwestern Archaeology, page 224",
          "text": "The use of an underframework, so to speak, of parallel or crosshatched lines is the best earmark of this ware.",
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          "ref": "2018, Kim Foster, Game of Secrets",
          "text": "We hold onto the underframework of the carriage, barely breathing, expecting a call to be raised that someone has seen us.",
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        {
          "ref": "2019, Mark Spurrell, The Symbolism of Medieval Churches",
          "text": "The Foundations of this church mark faith; for upon this foundation and underframework must we build all good works that they may become GOD's temple.",
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        "(literal, figurative) An underlying or supportive framework or similar structure."
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          "ref": "1970, Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, page 907",
          "text": "He said at that time: I feel the deepest conviction that no sanitary system can be adequate to the requirements of the time or can cure those radical evils which infest the underframework of society unless the importance be distinctly recognized, and the duly manfully undertaking, of improving the social condition of the poor.",
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          "text": "The use of an underframework, so to speak, of parallel or crosshatched lines is the best earmark of this ware.",
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          "text": "We hold onto the underframework of the carriage, barely breathing, expecting a call to be raised that someone has seen us.",
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          "text": "The Foundations of this church mark faith; for upon this foundation and underframework must we build all good works that they may become GOD's temple.",
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