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Undershot

adjective
1.
Having a lower part projecting beyond the upper.  Synonyms: underhung, underslung.  "Undershot bulldog"






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"Undershot" Quotes from Famous Books



... grown into an immense dog, heavy of muscle and huge of bone. A great bull head; undershot jaw, square and lengthy and terrible; vicious, yellow-gleaming eyes; cropped ears; and an expression incomparably savage. His coat was a tawny, lion-like yellow, short, harsh, dense; and his back, running up from shoulder to loins, ended abruptly in the knob-like tail. ...
— Bob, Son of Battle • Alfred Ollivant

... undershot jaw clenched on a cigar stub, regarded Larry steadily with his beady, autocratic eyes. Barlow was trained to penetrate to the inside of men's minds, and he recognized that ...
— Children of the Whirlwind • Leroy Scott

... but a glance to show what they were, Sharks! Scores of them, long, black ones, with their ugly, undershot mouths. They had been attracted by the blood of the one Tom had killed, but there was not a meal for all of them off the dying creature, and the great fish might turn on the young inventor ...
— Tom Swift and his Submarine Boat - or, Under the Ocean for Sunken Treasure • Victor Appleton



Words linked to "Undershot" :   underhung, protrusive



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