undershot

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈʌn.də(ɹ)ˌʃɒt/

undershot

1. simple past tense and past participle of undershoot

undershot (not comparable)

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

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

undershot (plural undershots)

1. An undershot water wheel.

• overshot

• unshorted