under ground

English

Adverb

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

1. (now uncommon) Alternative form of underground.
   • 1662, I[ohn] C[otgrave], “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[athaniel] 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.