overlashとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /əʊvə(ɹ)ˈlæʃ/
• 韻: -æʃ

動詞

overlash (third-person singular simple present overlashes, present participle overlashing, simple past and past participle overlashed)

1. To physically tie additional wires or cables to those that are already attached to a utility pole, accommodating any additional strands of fiber or coaxial cable on existing pole attachments
2. (obsolete) (Can we verify this sense?) To carry to excess.

   (obsolete) to overlash in phrases ― to exaggerate

3. (obsolete, by extension) To exaggerate.
   • a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). A Treatise of the Pope's Supremacy”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:

     it being well known , that they in their encomiastic speeches , as orators are wont , following the heat and gaiety of fancy , do sometimes overlash

豆知識

Though only durably attested once, the term was reported to have had a technical equestrian meaning in Devonshire at least, that of pushing a horse hard enough that its rear feet would strike its front feet in the gallop.

参照

• “overlash”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.