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ˌoverˈdeck, v.
[over- 8, 27.]
†1. trans. To ‘deck’ or cover over. Obs.
1509Barclay Shyp of Folys (1570) 63 If that he her suspect, With a hood shall he unwares be overdect. 1599A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 114/2 He causeth the sayede Image to be overdeckede with an Oxehyde.
2. To deck or adorn to excess.
1712Steele Spect. No. 282 ⁋6 Out Clerk..has this Christmas so over-deckt the Church with Greens, that he has quite spoilt my Prospect. 1866Cornh. Mag. Nov. 633 Their heads and necks are overdecked with jewels, feathers, and flowers.
Hence † overˈdecking vbl. n. (see quot.).
1605Verstegan Dec. Intell. iii. (1628) 61 The ouerdecking or couering of beere came to be called berham and afterward barme. 1658Phillips, Barm, yest, the flourring, or over-decking of Beer. |