"undermounted" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1797, W. TYNDALE, Α TREATISE ON MILITARY EQUITATION, London, page 30:",
          "text": "I am therefore led to imagine the reasons they are so under mounted are, first---that unless a Hussar be extremely active and can turn almost as quick as a man on foot, he is useless; therefore agility is required in the animal more than strength; but that is no reason why both agility and strength should not be combined in him if possible.",
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          "ref": "1846, “HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE OF LEIPSIC. FOUGHT ON THE 7TH SEPTEMBER 1631.”, in Colburn's United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal (Part II), page 23:",
          "text": "The undermounted cavalry of the Swedes could have done little towards repelling them single-handed, whereas the continued tempest of bullets against which the armour of the cuirassiers did not protect them turned the scale in favour of the Swedes.",
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          "ref": "1899, G.J. Whyte-Melville, Market Harborough and Inside the Bar, New York: Longmans, Green & Co., page 231:",
          "text": "“It's a pity to see a gentleman undermounted,” specially in a country like this: so dangerous too!",
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        "Said of a rider mounted on a horse that is not strong or large enough for the size and weight of the rider."
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          "ref": "1909 November, The Irrigation Age, volume XXV, number 1, Chicago, page 6:",
          "text": "The only engine having a design adapted for heavy traction work. The undermounted construction gives it many points of important advantage over the top mounted style as used by all others.",
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          "ref": "1999, Ask the Family Handy-man, Reader’s Digest, page 221:",
          "text": "Sinks can also be undermounted — attached to the underside of the counter with clips or adhesive.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2017, Ben Coes, Trap the Devil, New York: St. Martin’s Press, page 432:",
          "text": "The underside of the fuselage rumbled, as undermounted cannon dropped, targetted, and started firing rounds in a high-pitched rat-a-tat-tat.",
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        "Something that is mounted under something else."
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          "text": "The only engine having a design adapted for heavy traction work. The undermounted construction gives it many points of important advantage over the top mounted style as used by all others.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "text": "Sinks can also be undermounted — attached to the underside of the counter with clips or adhesive.",
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        },
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        }
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      "sense": "mounted under something else",
      "word": "undermount"
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