overperch
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]overperch (third-person singular simple present overperches, present participle overperching, simple past and past participle overperched)
- (obsolete, transitive) To perch upon; to fly over.
- c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
- With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls
- To tower over
References
[edit]- “overperch”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.