overstrew
English
Etymology
Verb
overstrew (third-person singular simple present overstrews, present participle overstrewing, simple past overstrewed, past participle overstrewn)
- To strew or scatter over.
- 1908, Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts, Part III, Act III, Scene III, page 108:
- Hot ordnance split and shiver and rebound,
And firelocks fouled and flintless overstrew the ground.
References
- “overstrew”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.