overshot

Meanings

Plural: overshots

Verb

• shoot beyond or over (a target)
• aim too high
• simple past and past participle of overshoot

Adjective Satellite

• having an upper part projecting beyond the lower
  • "an overshot jaw"

Adj

• powered by water that flows over the top from above (of a water wheel)
• Having the upper teeth projecting beyond the lower, as in the jaws of some dogs.

Noun

• An overshot water wheel.
• A pattern resulting from a plainweave ground fabric and floats of supplemental weft, associated with coverlets in the colonial United States.

Synonyms

overshoot

Antonyms

undershoot

Related Words

undershot

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