Overcut

Quick meaning: Overcut is a verb meaning (transitive) To cut excessively.

Meaning

(transitive) To cut excessively.

More Meanings

1. (motor racing) To employ the overcut strategy.
2. (participial adjective) Excessively cut.
3. The act or result of excessive cutting.
4. An opening resulting from such cutting; an extreme incision or wound.
5. (motor racing) A pit stop strategy in which a driver seeks to gain an advantage over someone else by pitting after them and running in clean air to make up time.

Example Sentences

Such an overcut would be serious since French forests have not recovered from the last war.

(3) Forest of Mont Glore. An example of errors in early yield calculation which resulted in an overcut.

(i) Bottle gourd shall be (f) clean, free of any visible foreign matter; (g) free from bruising or extensive healed overcuts;

It is better to make a sale a little under this limit, to allow for a possible excess cutting. Where through poor estimating there is an overcut, the excess should be charged to the original sale in Class B as in Class C sales.

Word Forms

• overcuts
• overcutting
• over-cut

Antonyms for overcut

Common opposites include undercut.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include offcut, cut off, outcut, upcut, undercut, forcut.

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