Underpin
- v. t. To support by some solid foundation; to place something underneath for support.
- v. t. To lay stones, masonry, etc., under, as the sills of a building, on which it is to rest.
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.