overlier

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English

Noun

overlier (plural overliers)

  1. A piece that overlies or overlaps.
    • 1804, Robert Wissett, On the Cultivation and Preparation of Hemp:
      But because this is oftentimes dangerous, and much hurt hath been received thereby through casualty of fire, I advise the sticking four stakes into the earth, at least five feet above the ground, and laying over them small overliers of wood and open flakes or hurdles []