overˈbridge, v.
[f. over- 5 + bridge v.1]
trans. To make a bridge over; to bridge over.
| c 1000 ælfric Hom. II. 304 Þa het Maxentius mid micclum swicdome oferbricgian ða ea, eal mid scipum. 1805 Wordsw. Prelude v. 348 These mighty workmen..Who, with a broad highway have overbridged The froward chaos of futurity. 1874 F. H. Laing in Ess. Relig. & Lit. Ser. iii. 246 An infinite gulf, which can never be overbridged. |