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What does nether mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word nether? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Lower; under.
  2. Lying beneath, or conceived as lying beneath, the Earth’s surface.
Adverb
Verb
  1. (transitive, Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To bring or thrust down; bring or make low; lower; abase; humble.
  2. (transitive, Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To constrict; straiten; confine; restrict; suppress; lay low; keep under; press in upon; vex; harass; oppress.
  3. (transitive, Britain dialectal, Scotland) To pinch or stunt with cold or hunger; check in growth; shrivel; straiten.
  4. (transitive, Britain dialectal, Scotland) To shrink or huddle, as with cold; be shivery; tremble.
  5. (transitive, Britain dialectal, Scotland) To depreciate; disparage; undervalue.
Noun
  1. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) Oppression; stress; a withering or stunting influence.
  2. (mining) A trouble; a fault or dislocation in a seam of coal.
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