underdraw means To cover or line the underside of (a floor or roof) with plasterwork, boarding or other such treatment. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 89 out of 100.
verb
- To cover or line the underside of (a floor or roof) with plasterwork, boarding or other such treatment.“The [roof] had never been underdrawn, its entire anatomy lay bare to an inquiring eye, except where a frame of wood laden with oatcakes, and clusters of legs of beef, mutton and ham, concealed it.”
- To take or draw less than one needs or is entitled to.“You say for month and months you had been underdrawing? — Always underdrawing and giving up every month. Whatever we drew the officer signed an indent for and we gave up a surplus.”
- To represent inadequately in an artistic depiction, or in words.
- To sketch a work of art in chalk, pencil, or other temporary medium prior to painting, inking, or otherwise making the final work.“Here was the warrant (or at least a justification) not just for Steig's drawings of people as bodily symptoms but, more important, for his abandoning underdrawing in pencil prepartory to inking in a drawing.”