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Definition of Overhale
1. v. t. See Overhaul.
Definition of Overhale
1. Verb. (transitive) To draw or haul over; overhaul. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To overcome. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overhale
1. to overtake [v OVERHALED, OVERHALING, OVERHALES] - See also: overtake
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overhale
Literary usage of Overhale
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of by New York (State). Supreme Court, William Johnson, Lorenzo B. Shepard (1846)
"... avail in a new action to overhale the former judgment ; which is too preposterous
to be stated.' The other judges delivered opinions to the same import. ..."
2. Historical Records of New Zealand by Robert McNab (1908)
"A few days after Mr. Leigh's departure we endeavoured to overhale our stores to
take an account of the stock in hand, but such was their lumbering state ..."
3. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"Ta overhale, (o-ver-hawl') va To with growth ; to rise above. Tu OVERGROW, (o-ver-gro')
vn To grow spread over ; to examine over : as, he mer- haled mv ..."
4. A Select Collection of Old English Plays by Robert Dodsley, William Carew Hazlitt (1874)
"[Exeunt. ACTUS QUARTUS, SCENA PRIMA. Enter MARK ANTHONY, LEPIDUS, OCTAVIUS,
FLACCUS, Senators. OCTAVIUS. What helps, my lords, to overhale these cares ? ..."
5. A Selection of Leading Cases on Various Branches of the Law: With Notes by John William Smith, Richard Henn Collins Collins, Robert George Arbuthnot (1889)
"... forward at the trial, may still be of avail in a new action to overhale the
former judgment, which is too preposterous to be stated. Rule refused. ..."
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