overcatch

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ catch.

Verb

overcatch (third-person singular simple present overcatches, present participle overcatching, simple past and past participle overcaught)

1. (transitive, UK dialectal) To overtake.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     She sent an arrow forth with mighty draught ,
     That in the very dore him overcaught

2. To catch too many; to overfish.