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The discussion often goes into luncheon at the 19th floor Overset Club, the executives' dining room.

From Time Magazine Archive

Our party drove there in five double-seated wagons as far as Moose-Yard Brook, where we left the teams and walked the remaining two miles through the woods to Overset Pond.

From A Busy Year at the Old Squire's by Stephens, C. A. (Charles Asbury)

Entering the woods we proceeded first to Stoss Pond, then through Black Ash Swamp, and thence over a mountainous wooded ridge to Overset Pond.

From When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine by Stephens, C. A. (Charles Asbury)

Overset, ō-vėr-set′, v.t. to set or turn over: to upset: to overthrow.—v.i. to turn or be turned over.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

We had resolved to climb the hills on which he had gathered berries and sit on the "Overset" from which he had gazed upon the landscape.

From A Son of the Middle Border by Garland, Hamlin