overhie

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ hie.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əʊvəˈhʌɪ/

Verb

overhie (third-person singular simple present overhies, present participle overhying, simple past and past participle overhied)

1. (chiefly Scotland) To overtake; to catch up with. [from 15th c.]
   • 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:

     I disencumbered myself by main force, and fled, but he overhied me, knocked me down, and threatened, with dreadful oaths, to throw me from the cliff.