Lexicographical Neighbors of Overlier
Literary usage of Overlier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall by Royal Geological Society of Cornwall (1818)
"This mineral deposit may properly be divided into two parts, the bed or floor,
and the Teamm, as it is here called, or overlier. The latter consists of a ..."
2. Transactions by Royal Geological Society of Cornwall (1822)
"... all these constitute a mass so firm and hard, that the working of a fathom
usually costs from 50 to 60 rix dollars. The transition of the overlier ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1860)
"The bodies continue unburned, in chests of flat stones, with an overlier.
Commonly they are made for only one corpse, sometimes buried in a sitting posture. ..."