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Definition of Oversail
1. to project [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: project
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oversail
Literary usage of Oversail
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect: Explanatory, Derivative, and Critical by John Christopher Atkinson (1868)
"oversail, sb. The course of masonry—of no great thickness, but each stone covering
... Hall, gives ' oversail, to project over; a term used by bricklayers. ..."
2. Quantity Surveying, for the Use of Surveyors, Architects, Engineers and Builders by John Leaning (1897)
"Cut and parget, chase in old wall for 1-brick new wall Ditto 1J-brick ditto "
LABOUR BOUGH oversail OR SET BACK ONE COURSE."—A course of brickwork 20 feet ..."
3. Paston Letters: Original Letters, Written During the Reigns of Henry VI by Alexander Ramsay (1859)
"And as God would, on Friday last was, we had a good wind; and then we armed us
to the number of 2000 men in my fellowship, and made us ready for to oversail ..."
4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1882)
"... immediate or stable union with the body door-case. I conceive tho word to be
simply a provincial corruption of Stand-sill. Cf. Door-sill, oversail, &c. ..."
5. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"... oversail. A term connected with salient. (See Overhung.) SALLE DES PAS PERDUS.
A large hall forming a monumental vestibule or waiting room to smaller ..."
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