overcut
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.02 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
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;"
Etymology
From over- + cut.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: over
Usage
Inflected Forms
overcuts (present, singular)
overcutting (participle, present)
over-cut (alternative)
more overcut (comparative)
most overcut (superlative)
overcuts (plural)