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Webster 1913 Edition


Overleap

Oˊver-leap′

,
Verb.
T.
[AS.
oferhleápan
. See
Over
, and
Leap
.]
To leap over or across; hence, to omit; to ignore.
“Let me o’erleap that custom.”
Shak.

Webster 1828 Edition


Overleap

OVERLE'AP

,
Verb.
T.
To leap over; to pass or move from side to side by leaping; as, to overleap a ditch or a fence.

Definition 2024


overleap

overleap

English

Verb

overleap (third-person singular simple present overleaps, present participle overleaping, simple past and past participle overleaped or overleapt)

  1. (transitive) To leap over, to jump over, to cross by jumping. [from 8th c.]
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.7:
      Nor hedge, nor ditch, nor hill, nor dale she staies, / But overleapes them all, like Robucke light […].
  2. (transitive) To pass over; to omit, leave out. [from 10th c.]
    • 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin 2013, p. 141:
      It should be noted that even modest German efforts to overleap the power-political constraints on imperial expansion met with sturdy resistance form the established world powers.

References

  • overleap in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913