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Where stone had been chipped away, large flake scars, known as "overshots," feathered clear across its face and laddered smoothly up its length.
High Country News - Most Recent Nick Neely 2010
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Still, though he regarded society as composed altogether of villains, the sharpness of his intellect was not of that kind which enabled him to cope with villany, while it continually caused him by overshots to fail of the success of honesty.
International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 Various
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Still, though he regarded society as composed altogether of villains, the sharpness of his intellect was not of that kind which enabled him to cope with villany, while it continually caused him by overshots to fail of the success of honesty.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 Edgar Allan Poe 1829
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New material includes discussion of formation-related problems causing fishing, as well as their effect on fishing; plug back and side track; fishing tools and operation; and new mills and improved overshots and back-off subs.
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