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Definition of Overtaking
1. Noun. Going by something that is moving in order to get in front of it. "She drove but well but her reckless passing of every car on the road frightened me"
Definition of Overtaking
1. Verb. (present participle of overtake) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overtaking
1. overtake [v] - See also: overtake
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overtaking
Literary usage of Overtaking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Admiralty Law by Robert Morton Hughes (1920)
"overtaking VESSELS 135. The overtaking steamer must keep out of the way. s Article
24 provides that, notwithstanding anything contained in these rules, ..."
2. Handbook of Admiralty Law by Robert Morton Hughes (1920)
"4 overtaking VESSELS 135. The overtaking steamer must keep out of the way.
Article 24 provides that, notwithstanding anything contained in these rules, ..."
3. Reports of Cases Relating to Maritime Law: Containing All the Decisions of by James Perronet Aspinall, Butler Aspinall, Geoffrey Hutchinson, James. A. Petrie, F. A. P. Rowe, Bruce Farthing (1878)
"Sailing ships on converging courses are crossing ships within article 12, and
tlie faster sailing vessel is not an overtaking ship within article 17, ..."
4. The Law of Automobiles by Xenophon Pearce Huddy (1909)
"overtaking and passing. The rule that one who attempts to pass another on the
... An automobilist, on overtaking and attempting to pass two heavily loaded ..."
5. Cyclopedia of Law and Procedure by William Mack, Howard Pervear Nash (1903)
"The corresponding rule, article 17 of the act of 1864, is as follows: " Every
vessel overtaking any other vessel shall keep out of the way of the said last- ..."
6. The Law of Negligence by James Henry Deering (1886)
"11 The Anglo-Gorman, 1 Newb. Adm. 492. \ 369. overtaking vessels. — It is the
duty of a vessel overtaking another to keep out of her way.1 This rule applies ..."
7. Protocols of Proceedings of the International Marine Conference (1890)
"vessel is an overtaking ship, and it has been argued that when vessels are in
such a position that their courses are divergent, that they then come within ..."
8. Navigation Rules, International-Inland by D A Appelbaum (1998)
"(b) A vessel shall be deemed to be overtaking when coming up with another vessel
from a direction more than 22.5 degrees abaft her beam, that is, ..."
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