underbed
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[edit]underbed (plural underbeds)
- An underlying base that supports a bed or foundation.
- 1886, Geological Survey of Alabama, Special Report (issue 1, page 182)
- It has an underbed of slate and a cover of hard shales which contains seams of sandstone and form [sic] a bluff.
- 2011, H. Leslie Simmons, Olin's Construction: Principles, Materials, and Methods, page 771:
- An underbed is necessary in unbonded cementitious installations and may be required in some bonded ones.
- 1886, Geological Survey of Alabama, Special Report (issue 1, page 182)