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Definition of Overhang

1. Verb. Project over.

2. Noun. Projection that extends beyond or hangs over something else.

3. Verb. Be suspended over or hang over. "This huge rock beetles over the edge of the town"

Definition of Overhang

1. v. t. To impend or hang over.

2. v. i. To jut over.

3. n. In a general sense, that which just out or projects; a projection; also, the measure of the projection; as, the overhang is five feet.

Definition of Overhang

1. Verb. (transitive) To hang over (something). ¹

2. Noun. The volume that tips the balance between the demand and the supply toward demand lagging supply. ¹

3. Noun. That portion of the roof structure that extends beyond the exterior walls of a building. ¹

4. Noun. A fatty roll of pubis flab that hangs over one's genitals, a FUPA ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Overhang

1. to hang or project over [v -HUNG, -HANGING, -HANGS]

Medical Definition of Overhang

1. An excess of dental filling material beyond the cavity margin or normal tooth contour. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overhang

overhall overhalled overhalling overhalls overhand overhand knot overhand knots overhand stitch overhanded overhanding

overhandle overhandled overhandles overhandling overhands overhanging overhanging restoration overhangs overhappy overhard

overharden overhardened overhardening overhardens overhardly overhardy overharvest overharvested overharvesting

Literary usage of Overhang

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Car-builder's Dictionary: An Illustrated Vocabulary of Terms which ...by Master Car-Builders' Association, Matthias Nace Forney, Arthur Mellen Wellington, Leander Garey, Calvin A. Smith by Master Car-Builders' Association, Matthias Nace Forney, Arthur Mellen Wellington, Leander Garey, Calvin A. Smith (1895)
"Frequently they extend diagonally down on both sides of the overhang ... The overhang brace-rod strut stands upon the sill directly over the body bolster. ..."

2. The Law of Operations Preliminary to Construction in Engineering and by John Cassan Wait (1900)
"Trees that overhang a Public Way.—If a landowner permit his trees to overhang a highway so as to inconvenience the public, it is a common nuisance and the ..."

3. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1874)
"Он ye who love to overhang the springs, *t And stand by running waters, ye whose boughs Make beautiful the rocks o'er which they play. ..."

4. The Monograph Series edited by Russell Fenimore Whitehead (1915)
"Built about 1750 The framed overhang construction is most unusual in the Southern colonies THE PENDELTON HOUSE, NEAR RICHMOND, VIRGINIA The early Virginia ..."

5. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, George Sharswood, Barron Field (1908)
"... or the like, to overhang another's land: and downwards, whatever is in a direct line, between the surface of any land and the centre of the earth, ..."

6. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1887)
"All three crown the range of limestone hills through which the Indus has here cut its way, and the minarets and houses, especially in Rohri, overhang the ..."

7. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1849)
"... and he prefers that which happens to overhang a wall or a rivulet : he makes it of grass, which he weaves like cloth, and shapes like a large bottle, ..."

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