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First published 1965 (SND Vol. VI).
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Quotation dates: 1788-1848, 1900
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OWERHIE, v. Also oerhie, overhie, -high. To overtake, catch, make up on. Also in n.Eng. dial. [ʌu(ə)r′hɑe]Ayr. 1788 J. Lapraik Poems 110:
Let's run, we'll him o'er-hie Ere he win hame.Edb. 1791 J. Learmont Poems 36:
Dreary was the scene That o'erhied Helen on the height.Slk. 1817 Hogg Shep. Wedding (1874) 153:
Jack o' the Meercleuch . . . whipped on furiously, and would soon have overhied his pedestrian adversary.Rxb. 1848 R. Davidson Leaves 33:
Vengeance o'erhied her and crush'd her at last.Kcb. 1900:
Mother to runaway son, "I'll sit on my doup and owerhie ye yet."
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