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verb

Undershoot v. t. (past & past part. undershot; pres. part. undershooting) To shoot short of (a mark).

adjective

Undershot adj.

(Zool.) Having the lower incisor teeth projecting beyond the upper ones, as in the bulldog.

Moved by water passing beneath; said of a water wheel, and opposed to overshot; as, an undershot wheel.

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Etymology of 'Undershot'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Undershot" Quotes from Famous Books

... and fired; but the mass of hair on the lion made me think he was nearer than he was, and I undershot, inflicting a flesh wound that was neither crippling nor fatal. He was already grunting savagely and tossing his tail erect, with his head held low; and at the shot the great sinewy beast came toward ...

— Theodore Roosevelt • Edmund Lester Pearson

... enterprises, and sweep him on to fame and fortune. Opportune are all the days when health spills over at the eye and ear and laughs through the lips. Men worn out are like overshot wheels—the life trickles and the buckets are filled slowly by long rests and frequent vacations. Young men are like undershot wheels—always, by day and night, ...

— The Investment of Influence - A Study of Social Sympathy and Service • Newell Dwight Hillis

... UNDERSHOT, Carlyle's name in "Past and Present" for a member or "Master-Worker" of the English mammon-worshipping manufacturing class in rivalry with the aristocracy for the ascendency in the land, who pays his workers his wages and thinks he has done his duty with them ...

— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood