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Definition of Oversows
1. oversow [v] - See also: oversow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oversows
Literary usage of Oversows
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Queen's Bench, and by William Mawdesley Best, George James Philip Smith (1868)
"oversows of ». 17., the Corporation of London were authorised to take ST. PETER,
coal dues from ships coming within the port of London, for establishing and ..."
2. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"If the cutting of ditches by the upper proprietor on a natural stream causes such
an increase of the Sow of water In the stream that It oversows its hanks ..."
3. Legislation on Insanity: A Collection of All the Lunacy Laws of the States by George Leib Harrison (1884)
"... pauper.. he or she was sent, or where the trial, or proceedings were had,
under which, he or she was committed, or sent to oversows or said hospital, ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Queen's Bench, and by William Mawdesley Best, George James Philip Smith, Great Britain Court of Queen's Bench, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber (1864)
"... apprentice by indenture to one Thomas Blakesley, of oversows of , framework
knitter. He served Thomas Blakes- ..."
5. Progress and Poverty: A Review of the Doctrines of Henry George by George Basil Dixwell (1882)
"... lawyers, men of letters, and the like; and that capital oversows for remunerative
investment from these densely populated to sparsely populated regions. ..."
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