overlash

From over- +‎ lash. Compare dialectal English lash (“extravagant”), lashing (“lavish”).

• IPA^(key): /əʊvə(ɹ)ˈlæʃ/
• Rhymes: -æʃ

overlash (third-person singular simple present overlashes, present participle overlashing, simple past and past participle overlashed)

1. To physically tie additional wires or cables to those that are already attached to a utility pole, accommodating any additional strands of fiber or coaxial cable on existing pole attachments
2. (obsolete) (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) To carry to excess.

   (obsolete) to overlash in phrases ― to exaggerate

3. (obsolete, by extension) To exaggerate.
   • a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). A Treatise of the Pope's Supremacy”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. , volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A J Valpy, , published 1830–1831, →OCLC:

     it being well known , that they in their encomiastic speeches , as orators are wont , following the heat and gaiety of fancy , do sometimes overlash

Though only durably attested once, the term was reported to have had a technical equestrian meaning in Devonshire at least, that of pushing a horse hard enough that its rear feet would strike its front feet in the gallop.

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