overshot (root: overshoot)

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Adjective

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective overshot has 1 sense

overshot(s = adj.all) Array - having an upper part projecting beyond the lower; "an overshot jaw"

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CIDE DICTIONARY

overshot, a.

From Overshoot, v. t. [1913 Webster]

Overshot wheel, a vertical water wheel, the circumference of which is covered with cavities or buckets, and which is turned by water which shoots over the top of it, filling the buckets on the farther side and acting chiefly by its weight.

overshot, a.

Having the upper teeth projecting beyond the lower; -- said of the jaws of some dogs. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

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