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  1. overbow: Wordnik
  2. overbow: Wiktionary
  3. Overbow: Dictionary.com
  4. Overbow: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. overbow: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Overbow: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. overbow: FreeDictionary.org
  8. Overbow: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (overbow)

verb:  (chiefly poetic, transitive) To arch over.
verb:  (transitive) To bow or bend (something) over beyond its natural trajectory; to bend in a contrary direction.
verb:  (intransitive) To bend too far.
verb:  (transitive) To overburden.
verb:  (archery, transitive) To provide (an archer) with a bow that requires more strength than the archer can fully draw.
verb:  (archery, intransitive) To use a bow that requires more strength than the archer can fully draw.
verb:  To use too much pressure when playing a stringed instrument using a bow.
noun:  A structural piece that arches over another piece.
adjective:  Extending beyond the bow (front of a ship)
verb:  (transitive) To show excessive deference toward by too much bowing.

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