(UNDER-1 5 b.)
1768–74. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), II. 319. The impulse of covetousness or lust of fame, and that under twig of it, vanity.
1805. R. W. Dickson, Pract. Agric., I. 135. To make the side of the hedge to slope inwards a little above, which gives to the under-twigs a freshness they could not otherwise be made to attain.
