Crossword-Solution: UNDERSHOT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Undershot | a. | Having the lower incisor teeth projecting beyond the upper ones, as in the bulldog. |
| Undershot | a. | Moved by water passing beneath; -- said of a water wheel, and opposed to overshot; as, an undershot wheel. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| UNDERSHOT | anagram | THEROUNDS |
We have 3 clues for the answer “UNDERSHOT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Came in short of runway. | 1 answer |
| FAILED to reach mark | 1 answer |
| LANDED short of target | 1 answer |
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Form of quartz with coloured bands
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Hint 2 anagram
ATGAE
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with UNDERSHOT (5)
The personage had a big, fat, pink face and a heavily undershot jaw, what whitish beard he wore following his double chin somewhat after the manner displayed in the portraits of Henry the Eighth.
They are eloquent, ruggedly strong Essays, those of Mirabeau Junior upon Free Trade:--they contain, in condensed shape, everything we were privileged to hear, seventy years later, from all organs, coach-horns, jews-harps and scrannel-pipes, PRO and CONTRA, on the same sublime subject: "God is great, and Plugson of Undershot is his Prophet.
The laborer is getting to consent that his son shall go to school, and learn how to build an undershot wheel or to assay metals; but why plant in his mind those principles of taste which will make him as sensitive to beauty as to pain, why open to him those realms of imagination with the illimitable horizons, the contours and colors of which can but fill him with indefinite longing? It is not necessary for me in this presence to dwell upon the value of culture.
That's all there is to the whole business, Chief: I'm going to go straight.” Chief Barlow, hunched forward, his undershot jaw clenched on a cigar stub, regarded Larry steadily with his beady, autocratic eyes.
Again I knelt and fired; but the mass of hair on the lion made me think he was nearer than he was, and I undershot, inflicting a flesh wound that was neither crippling nor fatal.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1953).