单词 | overloup |
释义 | overloupn. Scottish and English regional (northern). Now rare. 1. a. An encroachment or trespass on a neighbour's property, esp. by livestock. Formerly also: †the right to graze livestock on land adjacent to one's own (obsolete). Cf. overleap n. 2.start and overloup: see start n.2 Phrases 7. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement over, across, through, or past > [noun] > passing beyond a point or limit > beyond bounds overleap1671 overloup1686 1686 in C. M. Armet Kirkcudbright Sheriff Court Deeds (1953) II. 362 [The croft and tenement of land called Blakfourd..being part of the lands..presently possessed by himself, together with] ane overloup [in the lands of Culnaightry]. 1694 in C. M. Armet Kirkcudbright Sheriff Court Deeds (1953) II. 584 Two ky hirded and grased..with ane horse grased within his oun take with some our loupe upon the sheep pastore. 1707 in J. Lauder Decisions Lords of Council (1761) II. 408 If they [sc. drovers' herds], in their transient passage, do any skaith by start and o'erloup, the owner is indeed liable to make up the damage. 1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well I. iii. 61 How could she help twa daft hempie callants from taking a start and an owerloup? 1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Owerloup, an overleap; applied to the intrusion and trespass of cattle. b. An occasional self-indulgence. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > evildoing or wrongdoing > [noun] > transgression or offending witec1175 trespassinga1340 forfeiturec1380 offensiona1382 prevaricationc1384 offendinga1425 transgression1426 defencea1450 digression1517 digressinga1535 transgressing1535 transgress1578 misfaring1595 overloup1827 1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd iii. 100 Though I'm a man o' little drink, I wadna been sae doons perjink, But taen an over-loup for sport. 1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Owerloup, an overleap; applied to..a sudden lapse in conduct. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > tide > type of tide > [noun] > spring springa1398 spring-floodc1405 spring tide1548 high tide1609 sea-spring1627 overloup1710 stream-tide1789 overleap1795 1710 A. Wright in R. Sibbald Hist. Fife & Kinross ii. i. 39 At the Stream, which is at the Change of the Moon, which is call'd the Overloup. 1752 Philos. Trans. 1749–50 (Royal Soc.) 46 413 In the Spring Tides which happen upon the Change of the Moon, called by the Commonalty, the Overloup. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1686 |
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