o'erhead

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o'erhead (comparative more o'erhead, superlative most o'erhead)

  1. Contraction of overhead.
    • 1907, Robert Service, “The Cremation of Sam McGee”, in The Spell of The Yukon and Other Verses:
      And that very night, as we lay packed tight in our robes beneath the snow, / And the dogs were fed, and the stars o'erhead were dancing heel and toe...

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