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Definition of Overset
1. v. t. To turn or tip (anything) over from an upright, or a proper, position so that it lies upon its side or bottom upwards; to upset; as, to overset a chair, a coach, a ship, or a building.
2. v. i. To turn, or to be turned, over; to be upset.
3. n. An upsetting; overturn; overthrow; as, the overset of a carriage.
Definition of Overset
1. Verb. (obsolete) To set over (something); to cover. ¹
2. Verb. (obsolete) To overwhelm; to overthrow, defeat. ¹
3. Verb. To physically disturb (someone); to make nauseous, upset. ¹
4. Verb. To knock over, capsize, overturn. ¹
5. Verb. (rare) To unbalance (a situation, state etc.); to confuse, to put into disarray. ¹
6. Verb. (context: printing) to set (type or copy) in excess of what is needed; to set too much type for a given space. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overset
1. to turn or tip over [v -SET, -SETTING, -SETS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overset
Literary usage of Overset
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The life and ... adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1884)
"I overset my raft, and all the goods I had got upon it; but being in shoal water,
and the things being chiefly heavy, I recovered many of them when the tide ..."
2. Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia: Extracted from the by Lyman Chalkley, Mary Smith Lockwood (1912)
"... over the main branch of James River in a canoe to a place of James McDowell,
and on their return the canoe overset and they fell out into the river. ..."
3. The Journal of the Rev. Francis Asbury, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal by Francis Asbury (1821)
"The milk and water of this country are both as physic to me ; I am afraid that
such shocks as these, will, some time or other, overset me. Monday 18. ..."
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