Meaning of overcut | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act or result of excessive cutting.
   uncountable, usually
2. An opening resulting from such cutting; an extreme incision or wound.
   uncountable, usually
3. 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.
   uncountable, usually

Examples

“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;”

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