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▪ I. † over-ˈyear, v. Obs.
[over- 34.]
trans. To keep over the year or over years; to load with years, superannuate, make old. Hence overˈyeared ppl. a. dial., kept over the year, or from the preceding year.
1574Hellowes Gueuara's Fam. Ep. (1577) 52 The letters that you haue to sende, and the daughters that you haue to marrie, care ye not to leaue them farre ouer yeared: for in our countrie they do not ouer yeare other things than their bacon, which they will eate, and their store wine which they will drinke. 1600Fairfax Tasso ii. xiv, Among them dwelt..A maide, whose fruit was ripe, not oueryeared. 1615T. Tomkis Albumazar iv. xiii. in Hazl. Dodsley XI. 401 O, what a business These hands must have when you have married me, To pick out sentences that over-year you! 1883Cheltenham Exam. 19 Sept. Suppl. 1/3, 200 over-yeared ewes 60s. a head.
▪ II. over-year, adv. (a.2) dial.
[over- 31, 32.]
a. adv. phr. Over the year, till next year.
b. adj. Kept over the year or till next year.
1790Grose Provinc. Gloss. (ed. 2) Suppl. s.v., Bullocks..kept..to be fatted the next winter, are said to be kept over-year, and are termed over-year bullocks. 1813Batchelor Agric. 507 (E.D.D.) Those who choose to give it [dung] repeated turnings, and keep what is called over year muck. 1877Holderness Gloss., Ower-year,..till next year or season; i.e. over the current year. ‘Ah'll keep that pig ower-year’. |