under ground

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English

Adverb

under ground (comparative more under ground, superlative most under ground)

  1. (now uncommon) Alternative form of underground.
    • 1662, I C, “On One Master Kitchen”, in Wits Interpreter, the English Parnassus. Or, A Sure Guide to Those Admirable Accomplishments That Compleat Our English Gentry, in the Most Acceptable Qualifications of Discourse or Writing. ">…], 2nd edition, London: N Brook, , →OCLC, page 302:
      Here lies one, in flower of youth, / Once his friend’s joy, now his parents ruth: / If Kitchen be his name, as I have found, / Then Death now keeps his kitchen under ground; / And hungry worms that late of fleſh did eat, / Devour their Kitchen in the ſtead of meat.
    • 1681, Charles Cotton, The Wonders of the Peake, London: Joanna Brome, , →OCLC, pages 31–32:
      Critical Paſſengers uſually ſound, / How deep the threatning gulf goes under ground, / By tumbling down ſtones ſought throughout the field, / As great as the officious Boores can wield, / Of which ſuch Millions of Tuns are thrown, / That in a Country, almoſt all of ſtone, / About the place they ſomething ſcarce are grown.
    • 2002, Lyn Cowan, “Women and the land: Imagination and reality”, in Tracking the White Rabbit: A Subversive View of Modern Culture, Hove, East Sussex: Brunner-Routledge, →ISBN, page 39:
      We have to go under ground to find out who we are as women; self-knowledge requires that we be psychologically subversive.
    • 2007, Dale Smith, Black Stone, Austin, Tex.: Effing Press, →ISBN, page 22:
      Car fluids wash through this stream, going under ground to the Edward’s Aquifer.