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overtopped - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
forestry , having the crown shaded from above, although a side or sides may be free to light. See crown class .
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verb overtop .
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This supports the administration's contention that the White House was receiving conflicting reports during the course of Aug. 29 about whether the levees had been breached or simply "overtopped " by hurricane-driven flood waters.
Who Knew What? 2007
The peril in which she stood but kindled in her heart a fiery depth of passion, such as overtopped and tamed the very terrors of her position.
Bressant Julian Hawthorne 1890
(A) STU is the raw proportion of saplings of each species in the FIA data with crown class 'overtopped ' or 'intermediate,' and (B)
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Duncan N. L. Menge et al. 2010
( 'overtopped ' or 'intermediate' FIA crown class).
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Duncan N. L. Menge et al. 2010
In Sawyer, N.D., the Souris overtopped a levee Saturday morning, flooding four homes, Mayor Cy Kotaska said.
North Dakota City Braces For Rising Floodwaters Jack Nicas 2011
In Sawyer, N.D., the Souris overtopped a levee Saturday morning, flooding four homes, Mayor Cy Kotaska said.
North Dakota City Braces For Rising Floodwaters Jack Nicas 2011
According to Bourgeois, the tsunami overtopped a three-story office building in the town of Minamisanriku.
US West Coast Residents Prep for 'Big One' 2011
Others are little more than mounds of dirt that get overtopped frequently.
Mo. opposes river-taming effort 2011
According to Bourgeois, the tsunami overtopped a three-story office building in the town of Minamisanriku.
US West Coast Residents Prep for 'Big One' 2011
Huge blocks topped and overtopped one another, only to serve as pedestals for great white masses, which blazed and scintillated in the sun like monstrous jewels.
CHAPTER 25 2010
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