Crossword-Solution: OVERHANG
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Overhang | v. t. | To impend or hang over. |
| Overhang | v. t. | To hang over; to jut or project over. |
| Overhang | v. i. | To jut over. |
| Overhang | n. | In a general sense, that which just out or projects; a projection; also, the measure of the projection; as, the overhang is five feet. |
| Overhang | n. | Specifically: The projection of an upper part (as a roof, an upper story, or other part) of a building beyond the lower part; as, the overhang of a roof, of the eaves, etc. |
| Overhang | n. | The portion of the bow or stem of a vessel that projects over the water beyond the water line. |
| Overhang | n. | The projection of a part beyond another part that is directly below it, or beyond a part by which it is supported; as, the overhang of a shaft; i. e., its projection beyond its bearing. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| OVERHANG | anagram | HANGOVER |
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Sentences with OVERHANG (5)
The Gorbachev regime has made at least four serious errors in economic policy in these six years: the unpopular and short-lived antialcohol campaign; the initial cutback in imports of consumer goods; the failure to act decisively at the beginning for the privatization of agriculture; and the buildup of a massive overhang of unspent rubles in the hands of households and enterprises.
Higher up, the lane showed thickening tufts of fern and of the creeping glossy verdure of shaded slopes; trees began to overhang it, and the shade deepened to the checkered dusk of a beech-grove.
The walls in many places overhang; in others they are beveled, loose, and shifting where the channel has been eroded by cinders, ashes, strata of firm lavas, and glacial drift, telling of many a change from frost to fire and their attendant floods of mud and water.
Black cliffs overhang it, full of the black mouths of caves; great trees overhang the cliffs, and dangle-down lianas; and in one place, about the middle, a big brook pours over in a cascade.
The overhang of their roofs prevented an attack on their hulls by the Llangaron, but their unmailed hulls were so greatly exposed that a few shot from another ship could easily have destroyed them.
Quotes with OVERHANG (2)
We are accustomed in England to chalk in rolling downs, except where bitten into by the sea, but elsewhere it is riven and presents cliffs, and these cliffs are not at all like that of Shakespeare at Dover but overhang, where hard beds alternate with others that are friable.
A seventeenth-century house can be recognized by its steep roof, massive central chimney and utter porchlessness. Some of those houses have a second-story overhang, emphasizing their medieval look.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1959–2014).