overglide

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ glide.

Verb

overglide (third-person singular simple present overglides, present participle overgliding, simple past and past participle overglided)

  1. To glide over.
    • c. 1527–1542, Thomas Wyatt, “Penitential Psalms”, in Egerton MS 2711‎[1], page 91r:
      that ſonne the wych was neuer clowd cowd hide
      percyth the cave, and on the harpe diſcendes
      whoſe glancỹg light the cordes did ouerglyde
      And ſuch luyſter apon the harpe extendes

References

“overglide”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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