Crossword clues for undershot
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Undershot \Un"der*shot`\, a.
(Zo["o]l.) 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.
Wiktionary
1 (context of a waterwheel English) powered by water flowing from below 2 (context zoology English) Having the lower incisor tooth projecting beyond the upper ones, as in the bulldog. v
(en-past of: undershoot)
WordNet
See undershoot
adj. having a lower part projecting beyond the upper; "an underhung jaw"; "undershot bulldog" [syn: underhung, underslung]
Usage examples of "undershot".
His was a uniquely thoroughgoing ugliness embracing both broad plan and minute detail, an ugliness the total of which was greater than the sum of the parts, an ugliness to which each feature contributed its bit, from the bulbous veiny nose, to the blotched and pitted complexion, well warted and stained, to the slack meaty mouth, to the flapping wattles, to the gnarled, irregular ears, to the undershot chin overbalanced by a beetling brow.
An undershot jaw exposed prominent white teeth that gave him a shark-like look when he smiled.
A man with an undershot jaw in which prominent teeth gleamed with the mirthless grin of a shark.
She was staring at a grinning stranger whose undershot jaw exposed a row of jutting white teeth like the mouth of a shark.
Clyde recoiled instinctively as he saw the sharklike teeth jutting like fangs from the undershot jaw.
Chief Barlow, hunched forward, his undershot jaw clenched on a cigar stub, regarded Larry steadily with his beady, autocratic eyes.
His personal trainer was a bulky youth with an undershot jaw and sleepy eyes, and a habit of glancing sideways and rotating his shoulder forward each time he passed a mirror.
The jaw was undershot, the eyes pivoted individually, and the hands gripped a stocked weapon with a ten-liter pressure tank.
They were gaunt creatures seven feet tall, with bulging black eyes, beaked noses, small undershot mouths pursed as if for kissing.
He was a stocky man with a round, solid head, small eyes, an undershot jaw, and a nose which ill-treatment had reduced to a mere scenario.
Through green fields, in which the grass as rising high and sweet, a footpath took me by a solitary mill with an undershot wheel.
He was bald and broad, with an undershot chin that pushed his lower lip over the upper.
Never a lovely sight, with his broken thick nose, the heavy undershot jaw, the pitted scarred face with its shadow of new beard growth, he made Lon Chancy look like Robert Taylor by comparison.
Cowley needed a lot of luck to get laid, what with his acne, his distaste for personal hygiene and his undershot jaw.
The result was that the place was ridiculously undershot, and all the western end, which adjoined Machray, was virtually a sanctuary.