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Undercut   /ˈəndərkˌət/   Listen
Undercut

verb
(past & past part. undercut; pres. part. undercutting)
1.
Sell cheaper than one's competition.  Synonym: undersell.
2.
Cut away material from the underside of (an object) so as to leave an overhanging portion in relief.
3.
Cut away the underpart of.
4.
Strike (the ball) in golf, tennis, or hockey obliquely downward so as to give a backspin or elevation to the shot.
5.
Cut obliquely into (a tree) below the main cut and on the side toward which the tree will fall.
noun
1.
The material removed by a cut made underneath.
2.
The tender meat of the loin muscle on each side of the vertebral column.  Synonym: tenderloin.
3.
A notch cut in the trunk of tree in order to determine the direction of its fall.
4.
(sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball.  Synonym: cut.
5.
A cut made underneath to remove material.





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"Undercut" Quotes from Famous Books



... Europe and white America. There was also the economic evil—really, of course, only an aspect of the conflict of types of civilization—arising from the fact that these immigrants, being used to a lower standard of life, undercut and cheapened the labour of the ...
— A History of the United States • Cecil Chesterton
... hooves and finds an average of about 8 inches since we left One Ton Camp. He finds many holes a foot deep. This gives a good indication of the nature of the work. In Bowers' tent they had some of Chinaman's undercut in their hoosh yesterday, and say it was excellent. I am cook for the present. Have been discussing pony snowshoes. I wish to goodness the animals would wear them—it would save them any amount of labour ...
— Scott's Last Expedition Volume I • Captain R. F. Scott
... course, necessarily limited by: (1) the clarity of the filtering companies' category definitions; (2) Finnell's and his employees' interpretations of the definitions; and (3) human error. The study's reliability is also undercut by the fact that Finnell failed to archive the blocked Web pages as they existed either at the point that a patron in one of the three libraries was denied access or when Finnell and his team reviewed the pages. It is therefore impossible for anyone to check the ...
— Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) Ruling • United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
... upon the decorative carving of the arches of the doorway. The outer was done in broad severe lines heavily undercut; the next inner arch in a simple pattern of alternating bosses and short lines- -Andrew called it the egg and dart pattern—and the inner arch in a delicate vine rather like the ivy that grew over the keep. Andrew said ...
— Masters of the Guild • L. Lamprey
... is that Netherlandish illumination, in its border foliages, after the taste for the larger vine and acanthus leaf had superseded the ivy, the drawing is studiously sculpturesque. Many of the Gantois borders are like undercut wood carvings. Even as to colour we find either the gilded wood brown or the stone grey, quite as frequently as gayer colours, and much more so than any natural green. The after-fashion for grisailles or camaieu ...
— Illuminated Manuscripts • John W. Bradley


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