?a1425 (?a1350) T. Castleford Chron. (1996) I. l. 1373 Þat hyle yt was desert and wast Þorowe many dayes befor wer past, For ouerrynnynges and many ingates Ofe felons folke, named pirates.

1554 J. Proctor Hist. Wyates Rebellion f. 4 In the defense of the realme from ouer-runnynge by straungers.

a1599 E. Spenser View of State of Ireland (1633) 12 This discourse of the over-runninge and wasting of the Realme, is very materiall thereunto, for that it was the begining of al the other evils.

1627 J. Speed Eng. Abridged xix. §4 The Danes also in their ouerrunnings, sought to stay themselues in this Shire.

1755 J. Smith Printer's Gram. iv. 52 Some Capitals make a great alteration, and sometimes occasion the over-running of several lines, before their driving out can be recovered.

1839 C. M. Kirkland New Home xxiii. 149 We recounted the adventures of our tiny journey, and laughed at our unlucky over-running of the game.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Over-running,..Applied to ice, when the young ice overlaps and is driven over.

1884 G. B. Shaw Let. 29 Aug. (1965) I. 95 The proofs..ought not to be paged, as the insertion of additional slips would cause over-running.

1908 Westm. Gaz. 3 Apr. 12/1 Over-running in the cricket-field had..brought the doctors..several youthful cases of a rather severe type.

1930 A. Wanless Sci. of Spinning ii. 25 With the fixed drum over-running of the line on the drum is impossible.

1992 Daily Tel. 13 Apr. (BNC) 10 The speed at which the lava began travelling and its overrunning of another dyke caused the government to declare a state of emergency.

c1225 (?c1200) Hali Meiðhad (Bodl.) (1940) 272 (MED) Ah hwa se halt ham earneð him ouerfullet, ful & ouereorninde, met of heouenliche mede.

1597 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 1st 3 Bks. iii. v. 60 He lights, and runs, and quickly hath him sped, To ouertake his ouerrunning hed.

1611 Bible (King James) Nahum i. 8 With an over-running flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof. View more context for this quotation

1817 N. Amer. Rev. Nov. 2 Now he is almost the last poet, for whom we should have thought of setting up the apology of a violent, overrunning nature.

1843 J. H. Ingraham Morris Graeme v. 16 And the words in truth gushed forth from her overrunning heart.

1865 W. J. Linton Claribel & Other Poems 55 He may build A refuge from the overrunning Dane.

a1894 C. G. Rossetti Compl. Poems (1979–90) III. 256 You but a taste of sweetness, she an overrunning bowl.

1938 E. G. Richardson Physical Sci. Mod. Life i. 15 Elaborate buffers have to be erected at the terminal stations of railways to bring an over-running train to rest in a short space.

1980 B. Okri Flowers & Shadows iv. 28 The dull stench of an overflowing garbage bin combined with the smell of the over-running gutter.

c1456 R. Pecock Bk. Faith (Trin. Cambr.) (1909) 203 Ȝe peraventure wolden a superficial and an over rennyng reding ȝeve therto, which may not in such a case suffice.

1921 J. A. Moyer Gasoline Automobiles vii. 172 The engine is prevented from driving the [starting] motor by the use of an over-running clutch, which slips when the engine tends to drive the motor.

1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. (rev. ed.) III. 224/1 The driven shaft can run faster than the driving shaft with an overrunning clutch. This action permits freewheeling as the driving shaft slows down or another source of power is applied.

1991 Mech. Engin. Sept. 100/2 The company's overrunning clutch is a solution for many types of high-speed rotating equipment used in dual-driven power transmission and energy recovery systems.

1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. xiii. f. 43 Such thinges..he doth either leaue wholly vnspoken, or but lightly, and as it were ouerrunningly touch them.

1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xxviii. 135 He looked like a man cut away from the stake, when the fire has overrunningly wasted all the limbs without consuming them.