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overshot - use in sentences
Modifies a noun
- waterwheel: The original power to drive the mill came from an overshot waterwheel situated below the ground floor.
- wheel: An overshot wheel is powered by the weight of the water falling over the top of the wheel into buckets.
- jaw: The only mar to his looks was a slightly overshot jaw.
- waterwheels: All the flours are milled the traditional way - water from the high Pennines turning two overshot waterwheels that drive century-old French Burr millstones.
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