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Definition of Overflying
1. overfly [v] - See also: overfly
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overflying
Literary usage of Overflying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Establishment and Discontinuance Criteria for Airport Traffic Control Towers by Diane Publishing Staff (1998)
"Thus annual additional overflying time is given by 0.130 x NOPS(i) x 0.025 hours
... Because overflying will not occur in the presence of a nearby flight ..."
2. The Bāz-nāma-yi Nāsirī: A Persian Treatise on Falconry by Husām al-Daulah Timūr ibn Husain ʻAlī, Mīrzā, Douglas Craven Phillott (1908)
"You must, of course, not weary her by overflying, for by overflying you make her
stale.3 A second advantage derived from flying her in the plains, ..."
3. Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran/Contra Affair by Lee H. Hamilton, Daniel K. Inouye (1995)
"... numerous cables relating to clearances for anticipated flights from Israel to
Iran transiting at Country 18 and overflying Country 16.27 On November 27, ..."
4. The Complete Poetical Works of James Thomson by James Thomson, James Logie Robertson (1908)
"But, if we seldom surprise him alighted in the valley, we feel his presence
overflying the entire scene from the ..."
5. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"According to Markham, is in hawks "a secret heart-sickness procured either by
overflying corrupt food, cold, or other disorderly keeping, ..."
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