Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
orlop .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete See
orlop .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete form of
orlop .
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Examples
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And Captain Will, saith he, ‘Them lower ports is cruel near the water;’ for she had not more than a sixteen inches to spare in the nether overloop, as I heard after.
Westward Ho! 2007
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And Captain Will, saith he, 'Them lower ports is cruel near the water;' for she had not more than a sixteen inches to spare in the nether overloop, as I heard after.
Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth Charles Kingsley 1847
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Ik overloop efkes met u de geschiedenis van dit veelvuldig gecoverde nummer.
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