Meanings
verboverhurl (third-person singular simple present overhurls, present participle overhurling, simple past and past participle overhurled)
present singular third person overhurls · participle present overhurling · participle past overhurled · past overhurled
- obsoletetransitiveTo overthrow.
Unmake and despoil and unshape him, overhurling our tyrant and lord
1875, George Barlow, Under the Dawn, page 391 more example
Various Reports are cast about the World, / As tho' some should be overhurl'd.
1803, Collection of English Almanacs for the Years 1702-1835, page 18
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