Overhung

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. Past tense and past participle of overhang.
  • adj. Suspended from above: an overhung door.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. Simple past tense and past participle of overhang.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Covered over; ornamented with hangings.
  • adj. Suspended from above or from the top.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Hung from above: said of a sliding door when it moves, by means of door-hangers or other appliances, upon a rail at the top. An underhung door is one in which the weight of the door is carried by a rail resting on the floor or by the wall near the base of the door.
  • In mech., having no outboard bearing; hanging on the end of a shaft; hung on or supported by a shaft having a bearing only on one side of the piece which is supported.
  • Word Usage
    "He’s been what he calls overhung all day, which means he had a drop too much last night."
    Verb Stem
    overhang   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Sung    Young    among    bung    clung    dung    flung    fung    hung    lung