overperch

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ perch.

Verb

overperch (third-person singular simple present overperches, present participle overperching, simple past and past participle overperched)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To perch upon; to fly over.
   • c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

     With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls

2. To tower over

References

• “overperch”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.