ˌoverˈdeck, v.
[over- 8, 27.]
† 1. trans. To ‘deck’ or cover over. Obs.
| 1509 Barclay Shyp of Folys (1570) 63 If that he her suspect, With a hood shall he unwares be overdect. 1599 A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 114/2 He causeth the sayede Image to be overdeckede with an Oxehyde. |
2. To deck or adorn to excess.
| 1712 Steele Spect. No. 282 ¶6 Out Clerk..has this Christmas so over-deckt the Church with Greens, that he has quite spoilt my Prospect. 1866 Cornh. Mag. Nov. 633 Their heads and necks are overdecked with jewels, feathers, and flowers. |
Hence † overˈdecking vbl. n. (see quot.).
| 1605 Verstegan Dec. Intell. iii. (1628) 61 The ouerdecking or couering of beere came to be called berham and afterward barme. 1658 Phillips, Barm, yest, the flourring, or over-decking of Beer. |