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Definition of Overblows
1. overblow [v] - See also: overblow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overblows
Literary usage of Overblows
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Collectio Rerum Ecclesiasticarum de Diœcesi Eboracensi, Or, Collections by George Lawton, Andrew Coltee Ducarel (1842)
"Area, vide Kirkby overblows. Claro wapen- take, UD—POPULATION, ... Patron, the
Vicar of Kirkby overblows. The Parliamentary Commissioners, vol. xviii. page ..."
2. A Topographical Dictionary of England: Comprising the Several Counties by Samuel Lewis (1831)
"KIRKBY-overblows, a parish in the upper division of the wapentake of CLARO, West
riding of the county of YORK, comprising the chapelry of Stainburn, ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the King's Courts at Westminster by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, George Wilson (1799)
"... the Duke was only tenant for life of Kirby 'overblows, ... to Kirby overblows,
and as to that matter, it is the fame to him as if the act had never been ..."
4. The British Gazetteer, Political, Commercial, Ecclesiastical, and Historical by Benjamin Clarke (1852)
"... WEST HIDING, YORK, a chapelry in the parish of Kirkby-overblows—(which see
for access, &c.) : 200 miles from London, 6 from Harrowgate, ..."
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