1636 in Rec. Early Hist. Boston (1877) II. 13 All the ground lying betweene the twoe brooks..and soe to the other end unto shortest overcut beyond the hill towards the north west.

1874 Appletons' Jrnl. 24 Oct. 535/3 The sparks showered from their blades until W——, by an overcut, laid open Ortega's sword-arm.

1877 J. A. Phillips From Bad to Worse 125 Most tremendous blows did he bestow on the unoffending bolster, now with the right hand, now with the left; straight from the shoulder, under cuts, overcuts, all kinds of cuts.

1883 Harper's Mag. Jan. 202/1 A big two-handed saw [was] set at work to make the overcut.

1940 Trans. Inst. Mining Engin. 99 55 When the undercut is in coal, the importance of effective shovelling may be less, but it must always remain to give freedom of working to the machine, and it is only when an intermediate or overcut is taken that it is unnecessary.

1960 J. Sinclair Winning Coal vi. 170 When overcuts at a greater height are required..a hydraulic turret machine..is generally most satisfactory.

1983 Engin. & Mining Jrnl. Jan. 28 The mine is operated on two main levels—1130, the overcut, and 1070, the undercut.

1965 New Scientist 5 Aug. 336/2 If the voltage is allowed to fluctuate, the size of the overcut will fluctuate, and it becomes impossible to machine parts to close tolerances.

1974 J. A. McGeough Princ. Electrochem. Machining v. 146 The amount of overcut can be diminished by several devices, including insulation along the external side walls of the cathode.

1984 E. P. DeGarmo et al. Materials & Processes in Manuf. (ed. 6) xxvi. 715 The distance between the surface of the electrode and the surface of the workpiece represents the overcut and is equal to the length of the spark.

1940 Amer. Econ. Rev. 30 274 Her railroads are physically in a bad shape; her forests are overcut.

1950 I. Kolodin New Guide Recorded Mus. 79 There are some imperfections of processing which result in audible flaws—overcut grooves, for one thing.

1974 Social Forces 52 419/2 Too many of the papers are repetitious, overlong, or overcut.

1996 Amer. Hist. Rev. 101 573/2 The deforestation of the region by the 1890s reduced grazing lands... Promoters now called for new migrants to the overcut Wiregrass Country.

1897 Garden & Forest 16 June 233/1 It has happened repeatedly that a family has brought suit against the member in possession, charging him with overcutting the forests.

1906 W. Schlich Man. Forestry (ed. 3) I. v. 75 Private owners are inclined to favour their own monetary interests to the disadvantage of future generations by overcutting..their forests.

1938 Times 14 Nov. 20/5 Excessive increase in taxation has caused owners to overcut, neglect to replant, and cling to their land hoping for better times.

1945 C. L. Lundell in F. Verdoorn et al. Plants & Plant Sci. Lat. Amer. 272/1 Accessible areas of the forest have been overcut ruthlessly.

1995 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 21 Dec. b5/3 Southern U.S. producers have been overcutting their saw timber for years.

1903 ‘J. Webster’ When Patty went to College xv. 276 Chapel excuses. I've over-cut four times,—I think it's four, though I've rather lost count,—and I haven't any excuse.

1908 N.Y. Times 27 Sept. i. 8/2 According to the new rules, all students except seniors absent from more than one-tenth of the exercises in any course shall not be entitled to take examinations in that course... Freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and special students who have overcut must give written explanation of every absence.

1951 S. King Consecrated Eminence v. 93 Most of us in each college generation came to his attention, either because of some boyish prank or for financial reasons, or because we had overcut chapel or class.

1981 S. A. Brown in Black Amer. Lit. Forum 15 24/2 I had overcut and consecutively, and Dean Howes said, ‘Mr. Brown, you have got to go. You have got to be suspended.’

1907 Trans. Inst. Mining Engin. 31 387 So far as the machine is concerned, it will overcut as well as undercut.

1947 Trans. Inst. Mining Engin. 106 18 The first seam to be overcut with a machine designed specially for roof-forming was the Cockshead Seam in North Staffordshire.

1986 Engin. & Mining Jrnl. (Nexis) June 58 Stopes are overcut and undercut at 30-m intervals along dip, while the width depends on the dimensions of the orebody.

1935 H. C. Bryson Gramophone Rec. iv. 73 For sounds of constant absolute intensity over the frequency range of 30–250, all the sounds have an equal tendency to over-cut.

1962 W. R. Wellman High Fidelity Home Mus. Syst. (ed. 2) viii. 175 When a recording is made, it is possible for the recording stylus to ‘overcut’, or run into an adjacent groove.

1948 Words into Type (Appleton-Century-Crofts Inc., N.Y.) 538 Printing is said to bleed when the margins are overcut in trimming and the printing mutilated.

1955 R. Bainer Princ. Farm Machinery x. 217 The blade tends to overcut the high spots and overfill with loose dirt in the low spots, which are desirable features.

2002 Jrnl. Amer. Dental Assoc. 133 103 There is an obvious trend in the dental literature and in continuing education courses to promote overcutting teeth when preparing them for restorations.

1946 Trans. Inst. Mining Engin. 106 21 An overcutter was required to cut at 4 ft.

1998 Tunnels & Tunnelling Internat. (Nexis) July 16 The overcutters for excavating the outermost 500mm are stored inside the spokes of the auxiliary TBM.