"understage" meaning in English

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        "(of machinery etc) underneath the stage"
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          "text": "When deep pits, required in the understage for the machinery and traps, cannot be drained on account of insufficient depth of the street sewer",
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          "ref": "1996, James M. Saslow, The Medici wedding of 1589: Florentine festival as Theatrum Mundi, page 86",
          "text": "The understage being only 9 feet (5 braccia) high, the mountain had to rise in telescoping stages",
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        {
          "ref": "2001, Augusto Boal with Adrian Jackson and Candida Blaker, Hamlet and the baker's son: my life in theatre and politics",
          "text": "dozens of strapping stage-hands in the understage manipulating warships, cannons dispatching balls of fire, blue smoke.",
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        "(theater) The area beneath a stage."
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        "(medicine) To underestimate the severity of a patient's illness"
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        "(theater) The area beneath a stage."
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