How to pronounce “overbow”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (chiefly poetic, transitive) To arch over.
• (transitive) To bow or bend (something) over beyond its natural trajectory; to bend in a contrary direction.
• (intransitive) To bend too far.
• (transitive) To overburden.
• (archery, transitive) To provide (an archer) with a bow that requires more strength than the archer can fully draw.
• (archery, intransitive) To use a bow that requires more strength than the archer can fully draw.
• To use too much pressure when playing a stringed instrument using a bow.
• [Noun]
• A structural piece that arches over another piece.
• [Adjective]
• Extending beyond the bow (front of a ship)

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