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/ˈəndərkˌət/ Listen

verb

Undercut v. t. (past & past part. undercut; pres. part. undercutting)

To cut away, as the side of an object, so as to leave an overhanging portion.

To sell goods or services at a price below that of (the competition or a competitor's price).

To weaken the effectiveness of; to undermine or sabotage (an activity).

(Forestry) To cut a notch in one side of (a tree) so as to control the direction in which the tree falls when it is felled.

noun

Undercut n. The lower or under side of a sirloin of beef; the fillet.

adjective

Undercut adj. Cut away below.

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Etymology of 'Undercut'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Undercut" Quotes from Famous Books

... ever been made in the mounds near Granite Mountain; but a tortuous little stream has undercut several of them, thus making vertical sections as in the case of the mound at Hunter's, near Farmington. In some mounds only a small portion near the margin has been removed; in others the erosion has progressed to such an extent that observations were possible at varying distances, to and ...

— Archeological Investigations - Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 • Gerard Fowke

... driving yesterday to Toneborough where I am erecting a town-hall, and passing through a village on my way I saw the workmen pulling down a chancel-wall in which they found imbedded a unique specimen of Perpendicular work—a capital from some old arcade—the mouldings wonderfully undercut. They were smashing it up as filling-in for the ...

— A Laodicean • Thomas Hardy

... us look at her feet. Giovanni has his own positive notions about those also. Thin and bony, to excess, the right, undercut all along, so that the profile looks as thin as the mere elongated line on an Etruscan vase; and the right showing the five toes all well separate, nearly straight, and the larger ones almost as long as fingers! the shin bone above carried up in as ...

— Val d'Arno • John Ruskin

... Should the casting be allowed to get dry before it is placed in this bath, no good results would be obtained; it is left in the bath for seven days. When delicate stone carvings have to be copied, the moulds are of a compound of gelatine, from the flexible nature of which material designs much undercut can be reproduced. For the foregoing particulars we are indebted to Mr. William Millar, the working manager at West Kensington. Sometimes the composition is cast in large, heavy slabs, moulded on the top to resemble ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886 • Various

... girth to a great height. And in a few minutes they came upon a falling gang at work. Two men on their springboards, six feet above the ground, plying an eight-foot saw. They stood to watch. Presently the saw ate through to the undercut, a deep notch on the leaning side, and the top swayed, moved slowly earthward. The sawyers leaped from their narrow footing. One cried "Tim-b-r-r-r." And the tree swept in a great arc, smiting the earth ...

— Burned Bridges • Bertrand W. Sinclair

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