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What does underhung mean?

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Adjective
  1. hung or suspended from above
  2. (carpentry) Resting on a track at the bottom, instead of being suspended; said of a sliding door.
  3. Having the lower jaw projecting.
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His jaw was underhung, and when he laughed, two white buck-teeth protruded themselves and glistened savagely in the midst of the grin.
He was a clean-shaven man, with bony forehead, sunken cheeks, and an underhung mouth.
To further enhance manoeuvrability of the vessel, the rudders are Becker design, semi-balanced, underhung units that incorporate a vertical, articulated flap in the after part of the rudder.
His mouth was underhung, giving him a pugnacious and bad-tempered appearance.
At any rate, that man's idea of The Torment was a hot, crowded underground room, underhung with patterned cloths.
His jaw was underhung, and when he laughed, two white buckteeth protruded themselves and glistened savagely in the midst of the grin.

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