(UNDER-1 5 b.)
1738. Swift, Pol. Conversat., 158. If you please, my Lord, a Bit or Undercrust.
1764. Foote, Mayor of G., I. I don’t think I have eat a bit of under-crust since we have been married.
fig. 1893. Advance (Chicago), 13 July. The real teacher knows that shallowness is often due to a second ‘undercrust’ which he must break.
