overloop

To loop over.

Noun

  1. Obsolete form of orlop.
    • In extremity, we carry our ordnance better than we were wont, because our nether overloops ( u ) , are raised commonly from the water, between the lower part of the port, and the sea . - 1785, John Campbell, Biographia...
    • After the accident with the Mary Rose, occasioned by the lowness of her ports, and by the fact of the guns being unbreeched, as was the custom, they raised both the gun-decks, or overloops, as Sir W. Raleigh calls them,...
  2. A loop that occurs above something.
    • I almost signed, and then luckily I noticed that my boss Abelardo's tall and horizontally compressed conquistador signature, with lots of overloops and proud flourishes, was located one petal over on the very same...
    • It was not until November 1978 that Levine seriously began pursuing the utilitarian application of his sculptures, when a friend, G. Duff Bailey, a bicycle buff and author of numerous articles about urban cycling, was...
  3. An outer loop; A loop that contains an inner loop.
    • Well , they certainly didn't know about loops yet, much less closed loops and overloops. - 1998, Dan Parkinson, The Whispers, page 133:
    • In contrast to the loop-based construction, the overloop-based algorithm (Algo.2) suppresses this problem completely. - 2011, Béatrice Bouchou-Markhoff, Pascal Caron, Jean-Marc Champarnaud ·, Implementation and...

Forms

overloops

Verb

  1. To loop over.
    • I sometimes form the fabric by passing the weft thread over alternate loops, as, for example, first, the thread a³ overloops in one row, and then that indicated by a⁴ overloops in the next row; this will produce a...
    • The torpedo consisted of a cylindrical copper case held in a scoop at the end of the spar and so overlooped by a line that it could be thrown out of the scoop when desired. - 1896, Frank Marion Bennett, Robert Weir, The...
    • Matt unbuttoned the thin black strap which overlooped the base of the CB's fat black antenna, slid the radio from its holster and clicked a switch at its top. - 2012, Nicholas Grabowsky, The Everborn, page 180:
  2. To loop too much.
    • Lonely atrium mutants, for example, have no distinguishable ventricles, and overlooped embryos have abnormally positioned heart chambers. - 1997, The Journal of NIH Research, page 5:
    • He had absorbed too much stale water and overlooped a bit. - 2014, Thorne Smith, The Stray Lamb, page 183:

Forms

overloops overlooping overlooped