overset
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“The guard overset on me, so I spun back inside, and with some pressure by Mel on the backside, it made him step back,” Philon said of Driskel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2018
Because the golden part is brighter, and in the center, it looks overset until you get close to the surface.
From New York Times ● Nov. 14, 2018
He was a man on horseback who broke the hegemony of London and Paris, overset a degenerate regime, achieved a social and political revolution and established a humanitarian tyranny.
From Time Magazine Archive
We are informed that one Piles a Fidler, with his Wife, were overset in a Canoo near Newtown Creek.
From Time Magazine Archive
Reef the foresail! first, you cracked her heart by sheering off, and now you'll overset her by bringing to.
From Wild Oats or, The Strolling Gentlemen by Anonymous
He was not good enough a swimmer to try any tricks such as oversetting the canoe, not when Thorvald was an expert who could easily finish off a fumbling opponent.
From Storm Over Warlock by Andre Norton
I remembered that savage nations made use of an out-rigger, to prevent their canoe oversetting, and this I determined to add to my work.
From The Swiss Family Robinson; or Adventures in a Desert Island by Johann David Wyss
Each canoe had a long out-rigger, to prevent them from oversetting.
From An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island by John Hunter
Tea had been waiting for some time at the house before Richard Glaire made his appearance—for he had of late insisted upon oversetting the old-fashioned homely customs of his boyhood, and dined late.
From The Parson O' Dumford by George Manville Fenn
And after oversetting part of a snake-fence before we found an entrance, we drove up to the door.
From Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
