2. Verb. Third person singular simple present of ''to overhang.'' ¹
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Definition of Overhangs
1. overhang [v] - See also: overhang
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overhangs
Literary usage of Overhangs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Bending back westwards upon itself, the line of Afghan frontier now follows the
water-parting of the Hindu Rush; and as the Hindu Kush absolutely overhangs ..."
2. Early Connecticut Houses: An Historical and Architectural Study by Norman Morrison Isham, Albert Frederic Brown (1900)
"Let us take them up in the order of the dates, as nearly as these can be
ascertained — except that we shall put the two houses without overhangs in a class ..."
3. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"... Landholder — The Stuff Aldermen are Made of — Rapid Rises from Small Beginnings —
Cleaning out the Shanties — The Shadow which overhangs Shantytown. ..."
4. Six Months in America by Godfrey Thomas Vigne (1833)
"The abrupt and lofty hill on the left is not surmounted by a " castled crag,"
but it overhangs, perhaps, a nobler river, whose banks are covered with the ..."
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