undershot

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈʌn.də(ɹ)ˌʃɒt/

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undershot

1. simple past and past participle of undershoot

undershot (not comparable)

1. Powered by water flowing from below. (of a water wheel)
2. (zoology) Having the lower incisor teeth projecting beyond the upper ones, as in the bulldog.
   • 1931, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 3, in The Glass Key‎, New York: Vintage, published 1972, page 50:

     His blunt undershot mouth curved in a smile that was somewhat ingratiating.

undershot (plural undershots)

1. An undershot water wheel.

• overshot

• unshorted