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Overhang   /ˈoʊvərhˌæŋ/   Listen
noun
Overhang  n.  (Arch.)
1.
In a general sense, that which just out or projects; a projection; also, the measure of the projection; as, the overhang is five feet.
2.
Specifically: The projection of an upper part (as a roof, an upper story, or other part) of a building beyond the lower part; as, the overhang of a roof, of the eaves, etc.
3.
(Naut.) The portion of the bow or stem of a vessel that projects over the water beyond the water line.
4.
(Mach.) The projection of a part beyond another part that is directly below it, or beyond a part by which it is supported; as, the overhang of a shaft; i. e., its projection beyond its bearing.


verb
Overhang  v. t.  (past & past part. overhung; pres. part. overhanging)  
1.
To impend or hang over. (R.)
2.
To hang over; to jut or project over.


Overhang  v. i.  (past & past part. overhung; pres. part. overhanging)  To jut over.





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"Overhang" Quotes from Famous Books



... are going to fight. You must overhang the night with drooping fog, and lead them so astray, that one will never find the other. When they are tired out, they will fall asleep. Then drop this other herb on Lysander's eyes. That will give him his old sight and his old love. Then each man will have the lady who loves him, and they ...
— The Junior Classics, V5 • Edited by William Patten
... the original, turning on the Swiss word Lawine, it is impossible to render intelligible to the English reader. The giants in the preceding line are the rocks that overhang the pass which winds now to the right, now to the ...
— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller
... in the afternoon, we came to Wilmington, a little town built upon the white sands of Cape Fear, some of the houses standing where not a blade of grass or other plant can grow. A few evergreen oaks, in places, pleasantly overhang the water. Here we took the ...
— Letters of a Traveller - Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America • William Cullen Bryant
... upon Keeko as she contemplated the overhang of the tree. It was almost at right angles to the face of the cliff. It projected out nearly thirty feet, and below—Her woman's heart could not repress a shudder at the thought of the three hundred feet drop to the rocky shoals in ...
— The Heart of Unaga • Ridgwell Cullum
... have combined with great natural advantages of position to produce an exceedingly picturesque effect. From the flower garden a wide sweep of lawn, flanked by majestic oaks and beeches, carries the eye up to the foot-bridge crossing the moat, thence to the ivy-mantled walls which overhang it, and upward again to the flag-topt tower that crowns the height. Clusters of ivy, and foliage here and there intervening, serve to soften and beautify the mouldering remains. The scene brings to our minds the words ...
— The Hawarden Visitors' Hand-Book - Revised Edition, 1890 • William Henry Gladstone


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