† overˈhale, v. Obs.
[f. over- 8, etc. + hale v.1]
1. trans. To draw over something as a covering.
| 1579 Spenser Sheph. Cal. Jan. 75 The frosty Night Her mantle black through heaven gan ouerhaile [gloss, drawe ouer]. a 1641 Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. ii. (1642) 117 He was as a guide by night, so bee the starres of heaven, in overhailed darknesse. |
b. To cover, as with something drawn or laid over; const. with.
| c 1470 Henryson Mor. Fab. iii. (Cock & Fox) xxviii, Now, worthie folk, suppois this be a fabill, And ouerheillit with typis figurall. a 1510 Douglas K. Hart i. xii, That dois thame quhile ourhaill with snaw and sleit. |
2. To pull or drag across. [over- 10.]
| 1581 J. Bell Hadden's Answ. Osor. 452 b, So doe they also..with their owne cable overhale themselves into an unrecoverable gulfe. |
3. To turn over or revolve in the mind. [over- 6.]
| 1423 Jas. I Kingis Q. x, All myn auenture I gan oure⁓hayle. Ibid. clviii, Straucht furth the range I held a way, oure-hailing in my mynd From quhens I come. |
4. To overtake. Cf. overhaul v. 3. [over- 14.]
| 1536 Bellenden Cron. Scot. Proheme Cosmogr. 318 For he that nold aganis his lustis striue..Eildis richt fast, and deth him sone ouir hailis. |
5. To pass over, disregard, overlook. [over- 5.]
| 1571 Satir. Poems Reform. xxvi. 65 And gif ȝe dreid yat sum will aithis ouirhaill, And will not keip nor ȝit obserue thair bands. c 1600 Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae 848 Thair be mae sences than the sicht; Quhilk ȝe owre-hale for haste. |
6. To harry, harass, molest, oppress. See hale v.1 2 b. [over- 9.]
| a 1575 Diurn. Occurr. (1833) 217 Albeit the said quene of Ingland wald owirhaill for ane tyme ane pairt of this cuntrie. a 1578 Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. xxi. ii. (S.T.S.) I. 284 The realme was ewill gydit and ower haillit [MS. I. ovirharllit] be my lord of Angus and his men. 1611 Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. iii. §20. 444 So that his ouer-haled subjects fled daily out of the Realme. |
7. To overpower, overmaster. [over- 21.]
| 1581 Rich Farewell (Shaks. Soc.) 3 Though harebrained youth overhaled me for a tyme. Ibid. 203 That our fathers..should bee so overhaled with the furie of their fonde and unbrideled affections. 1596 Harington Ulysses upon Ajax (1814) 54 Either passion devoureth him, ambition overhaleth him. 1612 Drayton Poly-olb. iii. 40 Hounds..That cold doth sildome fret, nor heat doth ouerhaile. |
8. Naut. = overhaul v. 1.
| 1692 Capt. Smith's Seaman's Gram. xvi. 78 To over Hale, is when a Rope is haled too stiff, to hale it the contrary way, thereby to make it more slack. |
9. Naut., etc. To examine thoroughly: = overhaul v. 2.
| 1748 Anson's Voy. i. v. 42 Our next employment was..overhaling our rigging. Ibid. ii. ii. 134 Our best hands were sent..to overhale and fix her rigging. 1806–7 J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life xiv. Introd., I want as..much of your ear as you please, while I overhale my tablets of Misery here. |
Hence † ˈoverhale n. Obs. = overhaul n.
| 1748 Anson's Voy. ii. ii. 133 We deferred the general over⁓hale, in hopes of the daily arrival of the Gloucester. |