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third-person singular simple present underbears, present participle underbearing, simple past underbore or (obsolete) underbare, past participle underborne
To support, endure. examples
(transitive) To line, guard or face a material, especially cloth. quotations examples
cloth of gold underborne with blue tinsel
1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene iv]