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undercart en · NOUN

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Etymology

From under- + cart.

Meanings

1. An aircraft's undercarriage.
   • […] I have flown about ten hours solo on the Yale, an intermediate trainer rather like the Harvard, but without a retractable undercart and with a 350 instead of 600 horsepower engine. 1942, Hermann Hagedorn, chapter 5, in Sunward I’ve Climbed, New York: Macmillan:
   • I had just taken off with Red Two beside me and I had my head down in the cockpit at about two hundred feet as I got the undercart up, throttled back, and set the pitch. 1955, Neville Shute, chapter 6, in The Breaking Wave, New York: William Morrow & Co:

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