underhung

[ uhn-der-huhng ]

/ ˌʌn dərˈhʌŋ /

Anatomy.

resting on a track beneath instead of being overhung, as a sliding door.

Origin of underhung

First recorded in 1675–85; under- + hung

Silvestro was hand in hand with Petruccio and another boy, called Mastino because he was heavy-jowled and underhung.

Little Novels of Italy |Maurice Henry Hewlett
At any rate, that man's idea of The Torment was a hot, crowded underground room, underhung with patterned cloths.

Letters of Travel (1892-1913) |Rudyard Kipling
His mouth was underhung, giving him a pugnacious and bad-tempered appearance.

The Red Redmaynes |Eden Phillpotts
Underhung, un-dėr-hung′, adj. hanging over, protruding from beneath: running on rollers on a rail below it—of a sliding-door—opp.

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) |Various

He was a clean-shaven man, with bony forehead, sunken cheeks, and an underhung mouth.

The Vultures |Henry Seton Merriman

underhung

/ (ˌʌndəˈhʌŋ) /

(of the lower jaw) projecting beyond the upper jaw; undershot

(of a sliding door, etc) supported at its lower edge by a track or rail