Overblow v. i. (past overblew; past part. overblown; pres. part. overblowing)
1.
To blow over, or be subdued. (R.)
2.
(Mus.) To force so much wind into a pipe that it produces an overtone, or a note higher than the natural note; thus, the upper octaves of a flute are produced by overblowing.
... occasion we called upon the Rev. John Joseph Marsham of Overblow, near Shorne. This venerable clergyman, a bachelor, and in his eighty-fifth year, is totally blind, but in other respects is in the full possession of all his faculties, and remarked that he was much interested to hear anybody ... — A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land • William R. Hughes
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