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overling ‎(plural overlings)

(rare) A superior.
- 1917, Rudyard Kipling, Mesopotamia (poem)
  But the idle-minded overlings who quibbled while they died, [...]
- 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
  Reflex laughs from the underlings present, though only grim smiles from the overlings.
(Britain dialectal) A ruler; master.