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overcut

[′ō·vər‚kət]
(mining engineering)
A machine cut made along the top or near the top of a coal seam; sometimes used in a thick seam or a seam with sticky coal.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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polarity, tool electrode material, peak current, pulse on time, duty cycle and gap voltage on the overcut was analyzed using analysis of variance.
So I overcut it, hit it in the rough, hit it in the nasty rough, and hit it short and then chipped it across the green.
Allen and Greene had lost all four doubles frames in the knockout stages and an overcut red from Greene let China in during frame three, but
I too would like to add a word of praise for North Wales highways when for example they don't overcut verges (except on junctions for safety) allowing meadow flowers to flourish.
Burnett's miss on the frame-ball black was criticised by commentators on the match but he denied again recently attempting to fix the result by missing the pot, which he overcut..
Burnett's miss on the frame-ball black was criticised by commentators - but recently he again denied attempting to fix the result by missing the pot, which he overcut.
Trailing 8-3 and needing only a simple black to make it 8-4 and scupper the huge gamble, Burnett overcut it to such a degree John Parrott remarked: "An amateur would have been embarrassed to miss it by that much." And he would know.
Earlier, after Hendry broke down on 112 in his own attempt, Ebdon had overcut a thin final black in his own pursuit of a share of O'Sullivan's winnings.
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