overstrike

Meanings

verboverstrike (third-person singular simple present overstrikes, present participle overstriking, simple past overstruck, past participle overstruck or (rare) overstricken)

present singular third person overstrikes · participle present overstriking · past overstruck · participle past overstruck · participle past rare overstricken

obsoletereflexiveTo overreach oneself while striking.First known use 16th c.
For as he in his rage him overstrooke, / He, ere he could his weapon backe repaire, / His side all bare and naked overtooke, / And with his mortal steel quite through the body strooke.
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
transitiveTo cover up (a design, mark etc.) by stamping another on top of it; to superimpose a mark or logo on (a coin, stamp, etc.).First known use 20th c.
transitiveTo strike (something) too hard.First known use 20th c.

nounoverstrike (countable and uncountable, plural overstrikes)

plural overstrikes

countableuncountablehobbiesA coin that has been overstruck, i.e. coined more than once.First known use 20th c.
countableuncountablemediaThe printing of one character over another, as - on top of L to produce Ł.First known use 20th c.
uncountablecomputingovertype (feature where input replaces existing characters instead of being inserted before them)