Underlayer

1. n. A perpendicular shaft sunk to cut the lode at any required depth.
2. n. One who, or that which, underlays or is underlaid; a lower layer.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.