Meaning

(transitive) To cut excessively..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To cut excessively.
2. (motor racing) To employ the overcut strategy.
3. (participial adjective) Excessively cut.
4. The act or result of excessive cutting.
5. An opening resulting from such cutting; an extreme incision or wound.
6. (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

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.

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

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

The evidence which residents offered for the existence of an overcut included the following: (1) forestry documents themselves, stating that overcuts were done and warning of a coming shortfall in sawlogs; (2) oral reports from foresters at public meetings; (3) oral reports from loggers and other forest workers; (4) direct observation of cutovers, logging, and logging trucks; and (5) direct observation of sawmill activity and biomass collection. Residents attributed the alleged overcut to several factors.

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

Word Forms

• overcuts
• overcutting
• overcut
• over-cut
• more overcut
• most overcut

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