subs. phr. (old).—An underling, a subservient person.
d. 1725. J. JOHNSON, The Unbloody Sacrifice, Preface, xxx. A Design was publickly set on foot, to dissolve the Catholick Church into numberless Clans and Clubs; and to degrade Priests into meer Tenders, or UNDER-SPUR-LEATHERS to those Clans, or Clubs.
