underflow
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Yasmini lay back on the cushions, drew something out from under one of them, and laughed softly, as if enjoying a deep underflow of secret information.
From Guns of the Gods by Talbot Mundy
The water is almost wholly taken from the rivers, but underflow is also utilized, especially in San Luis Park.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various
Some think that the station dropped into an immense cave, and others that it was caused by the underflow of the Arkansas River, which is overflowing its banks at the present time.
From The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 57, December 9, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls by Julia Truitt Bishop
Compare lost in the underflow, lost in the noise.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Guy L. Steele
Its current, unripplingly smooth, but dimpled ever, and wrinkled with the whirls that mark an underflow deep and shady, bore on our bark.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 by Various
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