overwing

English

Etymology

over- +‎ wing

Pronunciation

• (adjective) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)wɪŋ/

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• (verb) IPA^(key): /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈwɪŋ/

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Adjective

overwing (not comparable)

1. Over the wing of an aircraft.

   overwing exits

Verb

overwing (third-person singular simple present overwings, present participle overwinging, simple past and past participle overwinged)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To outflank.
   • 1670, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , →OCLC:

     Souldiers therabout , which gather'd to him , were neer upon ten thousand ; and purposing with those not to deferr Battel , had chos'n a place narrow , and not to be overwing'd, on his rear a Wood

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “overwing”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Wingrove, revowing, wingover