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Underbear [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To support; to endure.

2. To line; to guard; as cloth of gold underborne with blue tinsel. obsolete

Underbear [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To support; to endure.

2. To line; to guard; to face; as, cloth of gold underborne with blue tinsel.

Underbearer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In funerals, one who sustains the corpse.

Underbearer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who supports or sustains; especially, at a funeral, one of those who bear the copse, as distinguished from a bearer, or pallbearer, who helps to hold up the pall.