overhung

English

Pronunciation

  • (US, verb) IPA(key): /oʊvəɹˈhʌŋ/
  • Rhymes: -ʌŋ
  • (US, adjective) IPA(key): /ˈoʊvəɹˌhʌŋ/
  • Audio (US); “overhung” (verb):(file)

Verb

overhung

  1. simple past and past participle of overhang

Adjective

overhung (not comparable)

  1. Covered over; ornamented with hangings.
    • 1830, Thomas Carlyle, “On History”, in Fraser's Magazine:
      [T]he former, is but a vacant edifice; gilded, it may be, and overhung with old votive gifts, yet useless, nay pestilentially unclean[.]
  2. Suspended from above or from the top.
    an overhung door
  3. That hangs over; overhanging.
    • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 174:
      Though almost engulfed by Bedford, Elstow's claim to villagedom is still maintained by two fine rows of timber-framed, overhung, black-and-white cottages and the timber and herringbone-brick Swan pub.

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