overwing
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (adjective) /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)wɪŋ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - IPA(key): (verb) /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈwɪŋ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
overwing (not comparable)
Verb
overwing (third-person singular simple present overwings, present participle overwinging, simple past and past participle overwinged)
- (obsolete, transitive) To outflank.
- 1670, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , →OCLC:
- Souldiers therabout , which gather'd to him , were neer upon ten thousand ; and purposing with those not to deferr Battel , had chos'n a place narrow , and not to be overwing'd, on his rear a Wood
References
- “overwing”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.