c1535 in Yorks. Archæol. Jrnl. (1886) 9 209 Item there is a litle ouershot mylne goynge w^t a litle water.

c1535 in Yorks. Archæol. Jrnl. (1886) 9 328 Item the ouershot water mylne hardby the gate.

1659 in New Haven Colony Rec. (1858) 391 The ground through wch. the water must run for an overshott mill.

1678 Philos. Trans. 1677 (Royal Soc.) 12 933 A very large Wheel, which is turn'd about by Water, in the manner of an Overshot-Mill.

c1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 227 They have only the mills w^ch are overshott.

1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. i. iii. 61 The miller of an overshot mill..has shoots lying over every one of his wheels.

1821 Turner's Easy Introd. Arts & Sci. (ed. 18) 266 Water-mills are of three kinds: undershot mills, breast mills, and overshot mills.

1875 A. Young Hist. Chautauqua County, N.Y. 249 It was an overshot mill and did much grinding, and was tended by their father.

1980 Compar. Stud. Society & Hist. 22 491 Whereas the working rate of a man is about 0.1 horsepower.., that of an overshot water mill is 2 to 5.

1995 Isis 86 384 Brass bearings, or pillows, weighing as much as sixteen pounds were placed beneath the secondary vertical axles, or spindles, of undershot and overshot grain mills.

1677 E. Browne Acct. Trav. Germany 164 An Overshot-wheel in the Earth, which moves the Pumps to pump out the water.

1760 Philos. Trans. 1759 (Royal Soc.) 51 133 If a stream of water falls into the bucket of an overshot wheel, it is there retained till the wheel by moving round discharges it.

1797 J. Robison Let. 3 Feb. in E. Robinson & D. McKie Partners in Sci. (1970) 264 I wished to have a better measure of the power of Water acting by an Overshot Wheel than our poor theories afford.

1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. Pl. xiv An overshot water-wheel fourteen feet diameter.

1847 H. W. Herbert Miller of Martigne i. 9 Covered with vines and woodbine—at one end, black and dripping, stood the tall overshot wheel.

1904 R. Kipling Traffics & Discov. 389 Mechanically, an overshot wheel with this head of water is about as efficient as a turbine.

1984 D. Hill Hist. Engin. Classical & Medieval Times ix. 159 The earliest evidence we have of the overshot wheel is the occurrence of such a wheel on a mural in the Roman catacombs dated to the third century ad.

1797 T. Holcroft tr. F. L. Stolberg Trav. (ed. 2) III. lxxxiii. 328 This earthquake gave birth to lawsuits..between the proprietors of the overshooting and the possessors of the overshot earth.

1879 Scribner's Monthly Jan. 432/1 If a horse has an overshot mouth, or his teeth are so worn by age as to render it impossible for him to chew his food properly, filing of the teeth frequently restores him to good condition and usefulness.

1922 R. Leighton Compl. Bk. Dog xvi. 246 Undershot or much overshot jaws are very objectionable.

a1938 R. Jeffers Coll. Poems (1989) II. 494 ‘Mr. Stevens,’ he said: a man with a coarse face and overshot jaw.

1988 Horse & Tack Mart June 73/4 Extreme cases of overshot upper jaw are called parrot mouth.

1881 Times 18 Jan. 12/1 The horse was suffering from an overshot fetlock joint, which was incurable.

1897 Daily News 26 Mar. 7/2 The fetlocks were only overshot.

1988 D. C. Blood & V. P. Studdert Baillière's Comprehensive Vet. Dict. Knuckling, a forward bending at the fetlock joint. May be a feature of the conformation or a sign of neurological deficit. Called also overshot fetlock.

1884 K. E. Goebel in Encycl. Brit. XVII. 67/2 Overshot leaves (folia succuba) are those in which the anterior margin, turned towards the vegetative point of the stem, stands higher than the posterior one, and thus the anterior margin of each leaf overlaps the posterior margin of the leaf which stands before it.

1884 K. E. Goebel in Encycl. Brit. XVII. 67/2 If the growth of the upper side preponderates, then we have the overshot, in the opposite case the undershot mode of covering.