overcut

• over-cut

From over- +‎ cut.

• Rhymes: -ʌt

overcut (third-person singular simple present overcuts, present participle overcutting, simple past and past participle overcut)

1. (transitive) To cut excessively.
2. (motor racing) To employ the overcut strategy.

overcut (comparative more overcut, superlative most overcut)

1. (participial adjective) Excessively cut.

overcut (usually uncountable, plural overcuts)

1. The act or result of excessive cutting.
   • 1907, United States Forest Services, Field Program‎^[1], Government Printing Office, page 15:

     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.

   • 1920, Theodore Salisbury Woolsey, William Buckhout Greeley, Where No Wood Is‎^[2], Wiley, page 500:

     (3) Forest of Mont Glore. An example of errors in early yield calculation which resulted in an overcut.

   • 1944, Ovid Butler, American Forests 1944-03: Volume 50, Issue 3‎^[3], American Forests, page 112:

     Such an overcut would be serious since French forests have not recovered from the last war.

   • 2003, Reginald Byron, Retrenchment and Regeneration in Rural Newfoundland‎^[4], University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 111:

     Such an overcut would be serious since French forests have not recovered from the last war.

   • 2005, Complete Decks‎^[5], Meredith Books, page 209:

     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.

   • 2012, Directorate of Printing, Government of India, Extraordinary Gazette of India, 2012, No. 492‎^[6], Wiley, page 40:

     (i) Bottle gourd shall be (f) clean, free of any visible foreign matter; (g) free from bruising or extensive healed overcuts;

2. An opening resulting from such cutting; an extreme incision or wound.
3. (motor racing) 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.

   Antonym: undercut

• couvert, cutover