Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Suspended from above.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Hung from above: said of a sliding door when it moves, by means of door-hangers or other appliances, upon a rail at the top. An underhung door is one in which the weight of the door is carried by a rail resting on the floor or by the wall near the base of the door.
- In mech., having no outboard bearing; hanging on the end of a shaft; hung on or supported by a shaft having a bearing only on one side of the piece which is supported.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Covered over; ornamented with hangings.
- adjective Suspended from above or from the top.
- adjective a sliding door, suspended door, suspended from the top, as upon rollers.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
overhang .
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Examples
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He’s been what he calls overhung all day, which means he had a drop too much last night.
Cargo of Eagles Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966. n 50021032-1 1968
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He’s been what he calls overhung all day, which means he had a drop too much last night.
Cargo of Eagles Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966. n 50021032-1 1968
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If then the wheels be overhung, that is, fixed on the ends of the shafts outside the bearings, leaving the outer faces free, the moving foci may be connected by a rigid link A B, as shown.
Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught Joshua Rose
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American writer speaks of as overhung by “skies of such limpid clearness, that on several evenings Jupiter’s satellites were seen with the naked eye.”
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The centerpiece is a marble counter that seats 20 and anchors the dining room, overhung with brass pendant lights.
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Leaves float on the murky surface overhung with branches and, after the mainline rail bridge, our boat bumps the bottom as it comes alongside a wharf.
Country diary: Cornwall Virginia Spiers 2010
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A large and straight rather than a prominent nose; blue gray penetrating eyes which are widely separated and overhung by a heavy brow.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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It was surrounded by mangroves that overhung the deep water.
MAUKI 2010
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A large and straight rather than a prominent nose; blue gray penetrating eyes which are widely separated and overhung by a heavy brow.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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Three Valkyries smiled and patted his giant sides with sword-calloused hands as he made his way through to the huge central fire overhung by a spit that would take the strength of both Odin and Thor to lift once his gutted body was speared.
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