oversailn.
/ˈəʊvəseɪl/, U.S. /ˈoʊvərˌseɪl/ Architecture and Building.† 1. Scottish. A roof or archway over a passage between two buildings. Obsolete.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > types of roof generally
vaulta1387
plat-roofa1425
pend1454
faunsere1460
compassed roofa1552
terrace1572
sotie1578
crown1588
arch-roof1594
arch1609
under-roof1611
concameration1644
voltoa1660
hip roof1663
French roof1669
oversail1673
jerkinhead1703
mansard1704
curb-roof1733
shed roof1736
gable roof1759
gambrel roof1761
living roof1792
pent roof1794
span-roof1823
wagon-head1823
azotea1824
rafter roof1825
rooflet1825
wagon-vault1835
bell-roof1842
spire-roof1842
cradle-roof1845
packsaddle roof1845
open roof1847
umbrella roof1847
gambrel1848
packsaddle1848
compass-roof1849
saddleback1849
saddle roof1850
curbed roof1866
wagon-roof1866
saw-tooth roof1900
trough roof1905
skillion roof1911
north-light roof1923
shell roof1954
green roof1984
knee-roof-
1673 in M. P. Brown Suppl. Dict. Decisions Court of Session (1826) III. 17 A simple interest in a common passage..is [not] sufficient to hinder an oversailyie.
1673 in M. P. Brown Suppl. Dict. Decisions Court of Session (1826) III. 17 The height of this trance and oversailyie.
2. The projection of something beyond its base; an overhang.
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the world > space > relative position > high position > overhanging > [noun]
overhanging1548
propendence1615
oversail1688
overhang1853
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 101/1 Over seile, is when one part of a Cornish stands further out than another. Some term it a Project, or Projecting.
1778 Encycl. Brit. I. 618/1 a represents the oversail of the step.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Ower-sail, projection. ‘Let them slaates hev plenty of ower-sail.’
1993 Woodworker June 92/8 Allowing then for a 2'' ‘oversail’ into the gutter, the centre of batten one will be along the top edge of the under-eaves.
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oversailv.1
/ˌəʊvəˈseɪl/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈseɪl/ 1. † a. intransitive. To sail over or across. Obsolete.
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OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xiv. 34 Þa hig ofersegelodon [c1200 Hatton oferseigledon] hi comon on þæt land Genesareth.
OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xi. 1 Ða astah he on scyp & oferseglode & com on his cæstre.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1969) Isa. xxiii. 12 In Sichym, risinge, ouerseile [a1425 L.V. passe ouer; L. transfreta] þou.
b. transitive. To sail over or across (a stretch of water); to cross in a boat or ship. Now rare (poetic).
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society > travel > travel by water > [verb (transitive)] > sail across
oversail?a1400
to put over1569
transfrete1595
transfretate1653
ply1700
passage1987
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. 13876 Water & lond, long & brode, alle ouersailed & þorgh rode.
1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) iii. 686 Till our-saile thaim [stremys] in-to schipfair.
a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) ii. f. ccliv/1 We shall ouersaylle the peryllous and myserable see of this worlde.
1568 ( D. Lindsay Satyre (Bannatyne) l. 2085 in Wks. (1931) II. 122 Off chrystis law I haif experience, And hes oursalit mony stormy sie.
1617 W. Barksted tr. Juvenal Tenth Satyre in That which seemes Best is Worst sig. A8v Which lying Greece hath in her story told, How Cyrus dig'd downe Athos, how he came, And with his Nauie ouersaild the same.
1825 W. Tennant John Baliol iv. iv. 132 Impatient they, unheaded and uncaptain'd, O'ersail'd the Forth in ships, and in a band Came down on Berwick.
1864 W. W. Skeat tr. J. L. Uhland Songs & Ballads 164 Together [they] had o'ersailed the tossing sea.
1886 J. Todhunter Helena in Troas 14 Anguish of achievement; roaring seas O'ersailed, fair women won, strong sons begot.
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society > travel > travel by water > shipwreck > cause to suffer shipwreck [verb (transitive)] > run down
oversailc1330
to run down1659
c1330 (?a1300) Richard Coer de Lyon (Auch.) 162 in Englische Studien (1885) 8 119 (MED) Þe sarrazins drouȝ vp her seyl & ouer seyled our folk saunfeyl Þat þer we lore sexti score.
1449 R. Wenyngton in Paston Lett. & Papers (2005) III. 69 But [= unless] he wyl streke don the sayle, that I wyld over sayle ham.
1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxxxii. 250 A stronge vessel of hir [sc. the Danes] nauye that was ouersailed by the englysshmen and was perisshed and dreynt.
1601 W. Cornwallis Ess. II. xxx. sig. R8 Like a barke ouersayled, he runnes him selfe vnder water, and sinckes.
1688 J. Barnes Hist. Edward III iv. ii. 717 Put among others there was a Mighty and Strong Ship, called the Denmark, which being oversailed by the Englishmen, was taken and sunk.
3. transitive. To sail beyond.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > direct or manage ship [verb (transitive)] > set a ship's course > sail beyond
oversail1698
1698 W. Pope Moral & Polit. Fables ii. 6 The Earthen Pot the other oversaild, Dancing upon the Billows like a Cork; But her Companion, who much Water drew, And slowly movd..strove in vain T' oretake her.
1845 J. H. Ingraham Freemantle viii. 37 The schooner was sailing to windward of him and a little more than half a mile astern, under shortened sail to keep from oversailing her.
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick cxxxv. 623 I've oversailed him [sc. Moby Dick]... Aye, he's chasing me now; not I, him.
a1857 C. I. Johnstone Lives & Voy. Drake, Cavendish & Dampier (1864) 86 They had by six leagues oversailed Valparaiso, the port of St. Jago, where a Spanish vessel then lay at anchor.
1995 Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Nexis) 8 May d1 Young America oversailed the layline to the first mark and slipped behind 31 seconds at the rounding.
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† oversailv.2
Obsolete.
transitive. To overthrow, conquer.
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society > armed hostility > victory > make victorious [verb (transitive)] > conquer or overcome
overcomeeOE
shendc893
awinc1000
overwinOE
overheaveOE
to lay downa1225
mate?c1225
discomfitc1230
win1297
dauntc1300
cumber1303
scomfit1303
fenkc1320
to bear downc1330
confoundc1330
confusec1330
to do, put arrear1330
oversetc1330
vanquishc1330
conquerc1374
overthrowc1375
oppressc1380
outfighta1382
to put downa1382
discomfortc1384
threshc1384
vencuea1400
depressc1400
venque?1402
ding?a1425
cumrayc1425
to put to (also at, unto) the (also one's) worsec1425
to bring or put to (or unto) utterance1430
distrussc1430
supprisec1440
ascomfita1450
to do stress?c1450
victorya1470
to make (win) a conquest1477
convanquish1483
conquest1485
defeat1485
oversailc1485
conques1488
discomfish1488
fulyie1488
distress1489
overpress1489
cravent1490
utter?1533
to give (a person) the overthrow1536
debel1542
convince1548
foil1548
out-war1548
profligate1548
proflige?c1550
expugnate1568
expugn1570
victor1576
dismay1596
damnify1598
triumph1605
convict1607
overman1609
thrash1609
beat1611
debellate1611
import1624
to cut to (or in) pieces1632
maitrise1636
worst1636
forcea1641
outfight1650
outgeneral1767
to cut up1803
smash1813
slosh1890
ream1918
hammer1948
c1485 ( J. Lydgate Serpent of Division (BL Add.) (1911) 50 (MED) Iulius..purposed..to wynne the bovndes of Bretaigne, and tovursayle by force the weste party of oure occian.
a1500 Eng. Conquest Ireland (Rawl.) (1896) 17 On euery side Smytynge vp the hoste as they woldyn, in wode raas, fersly ouersayle [a1525 Trin. Dub. ouersaill] hame [L. tanquam in impetu furoris sui cuncta devorantium].
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oversailv.3
/ˌəʊvəˈseɪl/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈseɪl/ Architecture and Building.† 1. transitive. Scottish. To build a roof or archway over (a passage between buildings). Obsolete.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > build or provide with specific parts [verb (transitive)] > roof
heela1387
theek1387
cover1393
roofc1425
uphead1519
shedc1600
close1659
oversail1673
hovel1688
to cover in1726
1673 in Fountainhall's Decisions in M. P. Brown Suppl. Dict. Decisions Court of Session (1826) III. 16 Robert Lermont..obtained..an act giving him liberty to oversailyie the close, having both sides thereof, and cast a transe over it for communicating with both his houses.
1674 in M. Wood Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1950) X. 201 To oversailyie the closs by ane airch or pend.
2. † b. transitive. To lay (stones, bricks, etc.) so as to overlap. Obsolete. rare.
a. intransitive. Originally Scottish. To project, overhang; to extend beyond the edge of a base.
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the world > space > relative position > high position > overhanging > overhang [verb (intransitive)]
hangOE
to hang outc1400
stoop1422
overhang1567
overreach1610
beetlea1616
shelvea1616
oversail1674
impend1780
deject1825
whave1847
overtopple1855
1674 in M. Wood Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1950) X. 201 That..the remainder of the diamitter of the turnepyk oversailyie by corbills or ane airch four foot over Grays Closs head.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Ower-sail, to overhang, to project beyond the base.
1860–4 Dict. Archit. (Archit. Publ. Soc.) at Gathering Where the fireplace in one story is directly over another..the brickwork which oversails and forms the soffite of the with of the flue is called the gathering.
1960 N. Scarfe Suffolk 97/2 Columbine Hall..is an ancient moated manor house of beauty, standing straight out of the moat, its upper storey oversailing.
1978 A. Ritchie & G. Ritchie Anc. Monuments Orkney 31 The lower parts of the walls are vertical, but the upper courses oversail slightly as they rise.
1994 Sunday Times 6 Mar. viii. 19/3 It will be nicely proportioned, its construction visible and pleasing,..its copper and glass pitched roof oversailing at one side to make shelter for a car.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > disposition of stones or bricks > lay stones or bricks [verb (transitive)] > in specific way
couch1531
bed1685
bond1700
coin1700
tooth1703
truss over1703
tail1823
rack1873
oversail1897
1897 Archaeologia Aeliana New Ser. 19 ii. 177 A pointed doorway..formed by oversailing the horizontal ashlar courses.
c. transitive. To project beyond or overhang (a base or a lower layer).
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the world > space > relative position > high position > overhanging > overhang [verb (transitive)]
overhangOE
overdight1581
overdrip1587
overwhelm1593
overdrop1608
juttya1616
overbrow1718
overlean1827
overplume1854
overlop1893
oversail1912
1912 C. E. Power Eng. Mediaeval Archit. ii. 483 In the Decorated period the triple roll base..begins to rise in height, often oversailing the plinth with flat under-side.
1928 Jrnl. Rom. Stud. 18 66 We found that the existing walls, though they nowhere oversailed the foundation, were not set square upon it.
1938 Proc. Prehistoric Soc. 4 199 The lowest layer was laid horizontally and each succeeding course was laid at an angle, each stone oversailing the other.
1990 Pract. Householder Apr. 19/3 If the corner unit is to be a permanent fixture in the room the scotia should oversail the top of the existing room skirting.
Derivatives
overˈsailing adj. projecting, overhanging.
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the world > space > relative position > high position > overhanging > [adjective]
hangingc1330
pendentc1425
beetled1509
bending1567
prependent1592
propendent1593
overwhelming1599
pendulous1608
impendent1611
incumbent1719
imminent1727
impending1730
beetling1744
pensilec1750
pending1756
superincumbent1785
shelvy1811
overbrowing1814
propensive1819
oversailing1833
beetle-browed1842
overhung1845
overhanging1860
overleaning1865
overreaching1890
cantilevered1910
1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. 227 These walls..should have what is called a Welsh cornice (two or three oversailing (protruding) courses of brickwork).
1929 Man 29 71 Three courses of over-sailing slabs (one of which was a primitive quern).
1996 Daily Tel. 17 Apr. 31/5 There is a huge oversailing thatch punctured by a mighty chimney.
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