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▪ I. overˈrunning, vbl. n.
[-ing1.]
The action of the vb. overrun in its various senses.
1555J. Proctor Hist. Wyat's Rebell. in Arb. Garner VIII. 75 To defend the Realm from our overrunning by Strangers. 1627Speed England xix. §4 The Danes also in their ouerrunnings, sought to stay themselues in this Shire. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Over-running,..Applied to ice, when the young ice overlaps and is driven over. 1882Southward Pract. Print. (1884) 148 This kind of correction is called ‘railroading’ or overrunning. 1884G. B. Shaw Let. 29 Aug. (1965) I. 95 The proofs..ought not to be paged, as the insertion of additional slips would cause over-running. 1908Westm. Gaz. 3 Apr. 12/1 Over-running in the cricket-field had..brought the doctors..several youthful cases of a rather severe type. 1970J. Seymour Compan. Guide E. Anglia ix. 166 The fishermen haul the shanks by hand using the technique known as ‘overrunning’—or letting the boat drive down over the shank carried by the swift tide.
▪ II. overˈrunning, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
1. That overruns; overflowing.
c1230Hali Meid. 19 He earneð him ouerfullet ful and ouereorninde met of heuenliche mede. 1611Bible Nahum i. 8 With an over-running flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof. 1870Swinburne Ess. & Stud. (1875) 90 The passion of overrunning pleasure.
2. overrunning clutch: a clutch in which the normally driven member is able to rotate faster than the normally driving member.
1921J. A. Moyer Gasoline Automobiles vii. 172 The engine is prevented from driving the [starting] motor by the use of an over-running clutch, which slips when the engine tends to drive the motor. 1930[see free wheel, free-wheel]. 1966McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. III. 224/1 The driven shaft can run faster than the driving shaft with an overrunning clutch. This action permits freewheeling as the driving shaft slows down or another source of power is applied.
Hence † overˈrunningly adv.: see overrun v. 2.
1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. i. xiii. 43 Such thinges..he doth either leaue wholly vnspoken, or but lightly, and as it were ouerrunningly touch them. |