Crossword-Solution: OVERBLOW
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Overblow | v. i. | To blow over, or be subdued. |
| Overblow | v. i. | 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. |
| Overblow | v. t. | To blow away; to dissipate by wind, or as by wind. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| OVERBLOW | anagram | BLOWOVER, BOWLOVER |
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Sentences with OVERBLOW (5)
XLVII Long time Tancredi had in vain attended When this huge storm should overblow and pass, Some blows his mighty target well defended, Some fell beside, and wounded deep the grass; But when he saw the tempest never ended, Nor that the Paynim’s force aught weaker was, He high advanced his cutting sword at length, And rage to rage opposed, and strength to strength.
There are also deposits of a similar kind at Kirkby Overblow, a village a few miles to the north-east of Leeds; and Thoresby states that the place was so called because it was the village of the "Ore blowers,"--hence the corruption of "Overblow." A discovery has recently been made among the papers of the Wentworth family, of a contract for supplying wood and ore for iron "blomes" at Kirskill near Otley, in the fourteenth century;[3] though the manufacture near that place has long since ceased.
Finding it was likely to overblow, we took in our sprit-sail, and stood by to hand the fore-sail; but making foul weather, we looked the guns were all fast, and handed the mizen.
The Bells of Kirkby Overblow Draw back my curtains, Mary, An’ oppen t’ windey wide; Ay, ay, I know I’m deein’, While to-morn I’ll hardlins bide.
But yit afore all’s ovver, An’ I lig cowd as snow, I’ll hear once more them owd church bells O’ Kirkby Overblow.