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Undershot

adjective
1.
Having a lower part projecting beyond the upper.  Synonyms: underhung, underslung.  "Undershot bulldog"


Undershoot

verb
(past & past part. undershot; pres. part. undershooting)
1.
Fall short of (the runway) in a landing.
2.
Shoot short of or below (a target).





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"Undershot" Quotes from Famous Books



... The old-fashioned undershot, overshot, and breast wheels were not very efficient; they wasted about 75 per cent of the power applied to them. A modern impulse wheel, on the other hand, operates at an efficiency of 80 per cent and over. The loss is ...
— Electricity for the farm - Light, heat and power by inexpensive methods from the water - wheel or farm engine • Frederick Irving Anderson
... worth and charm of manner. He belonged to the old school of fighters who looked the part, and in these days of pugilists who resemble matinee idols he had the appearance of an anachronism. He was a stocky man with a round, solid head, small eyes, an undershot jaw, and a nose which ill-treatment had reduced to a mere scenario. A narrow strip of forehead acted as a kind of buffer-state, separating his front hair from his eyebrows, and he bore beyond hope of concealment the badge of his late employment, the cauliflower ear. Yet ...
— Piccadilly Jim • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
... sharp face, with eyes set a trifle too close together, and an undershot jaw, which gave him a somewhat pugnacious appearance. He was a chap who thought very well indeed of himself and his accomplishments, and held a somewhat slighting estimation of others. In connection with ...
— Rival Pitchers of Oakdale • Morgan Scott
... his mouth deepened as Blake protested against what he termed this outrage that had been done him; he sneered ponderously, thrusting further forward his heavily undershot jowl. ...
— Mistress Wilding • Rafael Sabatini
... "He undershot, yet as I was bending close to it he would have bagged me," I said. "I have to thank you ...
— A Virginia Scout • Hugh Pendexter
... Ernest Wilton, pointing to the foaming stream that was dashing along the valley. "Look at the waste of energy there! Why, with a good undershot wheel that water-power is worth more than a hundred additional hands ...
— Picked up at Sea - The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek • J.C. Hutcheson


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