Meaning

2 senses

  1. An overshot water wheel.

  2. A pattern resulting from a plainweave ground fabric and floats of supplemental weft, associated with coverlets in the colonial United States.

Forms

plural: overshots
Singularovershot
Pluralovershots

regular

Word family

1 related words
Relatedundershot

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
overseasB2overseeC1oversensitiveovershadowB2oversightoversimplifyoversizeB2

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