overstraw

English

Verb

overstraw (third-person singular simple present overstraws, present participle overstrawing, simple past overstrawed, past participle overstrawn)

1. Obsolete form of overstrew.
   • 1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC; Shakespeare’s Venus & Adonis: […], 4th edition, London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent and Co. […], 1896, →OCLC:

     The bottom poison, and the top o'erstraw'd

     The spelling has been modernized.

References

• “overstraw”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.