overcast
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In the deciding 35th frame, which lasted 68 minutes, Northern Irishman Taylor potted brown, blue and pink, taking the final frame to the final black, which Davis overcut from a blind pot.
From BBC • Apr. 22, 2017
The timber industry has been another offender: it wants to buy national forests, in part because private lands have been overcut.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Two-thirds of the timber in this country comes from private land, and private timber industries can overcut or do whatever they want with that land and the timber on it," says Turnage.
From Time Magazine Archive
The decks resounded with "right," "left," "head protect," "right overcut."
From The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 by Jackson, W. C.
In imitation of double-cut, however, they are sometimes made with the first, or overcut, very open, called “hopped,” which adds, however, but very little to the cutting capacity of the file.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
Vocabulary lists containing overcast
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4.1: Causes and Consequences of Iberian Maritime Exploration and Colonialism (Sources 1–12)
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