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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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(Overlepe, v.) P.t. ovirlap, P.p. overloppin, -loopen, -loupen. [ME. overlepe, OE. oferhléapan (p.t. oferhléop); cf. Lepe v.1 and Ourlepe v.] tr. a. To leap over, jump. b. fig. To pass over, bypass, omit. —a. c1475 Wall. (1570) xi. 112.
Wallace … heich ouirlap it [sc. a scythe] Ib. 115. 1678 Cramond Ch. Grange 32.
[They] confessed that they had played at the football in the churcheyaird and that they had overloopen the deikesb. c 1615 Maxwell Mem. 323.
Onlie the air maill that God appoyntis, and na man overloppin, nor dishereist
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