overlash

overlash

English

Etymology

over- +‎ lash. Compare dialectal English lash (“extravagant”), lashing (“lavish”).

Verb

overlash (third-person singular simple present overlashes, present participle overlashing, simple past and past participle overlashed)

1. To physically tie additional wires or cables to those that are already attached to a utility pole, accommodating any additional strands of fiber or coaxial cable on existing pole attachments
2. (obsolete) To drive on rashly; to go to excess.
3. (obsolete, by extension) To exaggerate; to boast.

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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 overlash in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)