Usually means: Exceeded the intended target, limit.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word overshot:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. overshot: Merriam-Webster
  2. overshot: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. overshot: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. overshot: Collins English Dictionary
  5. overshot: Vocabulary.com
  6. Overshot, overshot: Wordnik
  7. overshot: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. overshot: Wiktionary
  9. overshot: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. overshot: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. overshot: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. overshot: Dictionary.com
  13. overshot: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Overshot: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Overshot: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. overshot: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. overshot: Rhymezone
  18. Overshot: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. overshot: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. overshot: FreeDictionary.org
  21. overshot: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. overshot: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overshot: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overshot: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. overshot: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. overshot: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overshot: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  powered by water that flows over the top from above (of a water wheel)
adjective:  Having the upper teeth projecting beyond the lower, as in the jaws of some dogs.
noun:  An overshot water wheel.
noun:  (weaving) A pattern resulting from a plainweave ground fabric and floats of supplemental weft, associated with coverlets in the colonial United States.

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