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Undershot   Listen
adjective
Undershot  adj.  
1.
(Zool.) Having the lower incisor teeth projecting beyond the upper ones, as in the bulldog.
2.
Moved by water passing beneath; said of a water wheel, and opposed to overshot; as, an undershot wheel.





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"Undershot" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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


Words linked to "Undershot" :   underhung, protrusive, underslung


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