[UNDER-1 6 a.] An assistant or subordinate builder. Also fig.
1651. Jer. Taylor, Holy Dying, Ded. (1719), A viij b. It is enough for me to be an under-builder in the House of God.
1658–9. Sir H. Vane, in Burton’s Diary (1828), III. 177. Now shall we be under-builders to supreme Stuart?
1841. Trench, Parables, 185. The great master builder was about to take down the temporary scaffolding…, and this … the under builders were setting themselves to resist.
