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Definition of the day : « overs »

  • As in lead : noun first place, supremacy
  • As in surmount : verb overcome, triumph over
  • As in vault : verb jump over; span
  • As in desire : verb want, long for
  • As in envy : verb be jealous of another
  • As in hurdle : verb jump over an obstacle
Example sentences :
  • The overs and unders of the lines are then marked, and gouges selected to fit.
  • Extract from : « Bookbinding, and the Care of Books » by Douglas Cockerell
  • The scoring-board showed an increase of twenty as the result of three overs.
  • Extract from : « Mike » by P. G. Wodehouse
  • The Overs, no doubt, got well chaffed about it; and the smaller boys must have played a very good game to win so easily.
  • Extract from : « The Story of the "Britannia" » by E. P. Statham
  • It took them some time to get our range, and for a considerable time we were not hit, all the shells being shorts or overs.
  • Extract from : « The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde" » by George Davidson
  • Happy Valley received many of the "overs" intended for Russell's Top and also much spent shrapnel.
  • Extract from : « The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I » by Herbert Brayley Collett
  • The Hun shells were falling so straight that many of the ‘overs’ missed by only a few yards.
  • Extract from : « Sea-Hounds » by Lewis R. Freeman
  • Overs, the odd money remaining after the daily accounts are made up at a banking-house,—usually divided amongst the clerks.
  • Extract from : « The Slang Dictionary » by John Camden Hotten
  • The last balls of the next two overs provided repetitions of this performance.
  • Extract from : « Mike » by P. G. Wodehouse
  • It is enough to say that they ran on much the same lines as the third and fourth overs of the match.
  • Extract from : « Mike » by P. G. Wodehouse
  • When we had gone another mile a spattering of "overs" began to fall around like the first heavy drops of a thunderstorm.
  • Extract from : « Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 » by Ian Hamilton