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Verb
o'erleap (third-person singular simple present o'erleaps, present participle o'erleaping, simple past and past participle o'erleaped or o'erleapt)
- (literary) Contraction of overleap
c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :The Prince of Cumberland! that is a step / On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, / For in my way it lies.
c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :I have no spur / To prick the sides of my intent, but only / Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself / And falls on th' other.
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