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Overshot vs Backshot - What's the difference?

overshot | backshot |

As adjectives the difference between overshot and backshot

is that overshot is powered by water that flows over the top from above while backshot is having the water introduced just behind the summit, combining the advantages of breastshot and overshot systems, since the full amount of the potential energy released by the falling water is harnessed as the water descends the back of the wheel.

As a verb overshot

is past tense of overshoot.

overshot

English

Verb

(head)
  • (overshoot)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (of a waterwheel) powered by water that flows over the top from above

    • Related terms

    * undershot

    backshot

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (of a water wheel) Having the water introduced just behind the summit, combining the advantages of breastshot and overshot systems, since the full amount of the potential energy released by the falling water is harnessed as the water descends the back of the wheel.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chiefly, sport)
  • (geology)

    • Coordinate terms

    * foreshot, midshot * undershot