Word Meanings - OVERSLAUGH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A bar in a river; as, the overslaugh in the Hudson River. Bartlett.

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• BARTLETT
  A Bartlett pear, a favorite kind of pear, which originated in England about 1770, and was called Williams' Bonchrétien. It was brought to America, and distributed by Mr. Enoch Bartlett, of Dorchester, Massachusetts.
• RIVER
  One who rives or splits.
• RIVERLING
  A rivulet. Sylvester.
• RIVERY
  Having rivers; as, a rivery country. Drayton.
• RIVERET
  A rivulet. Drayton.
• RIVERSIDE
  The side or bank of a river.
• OVERSLAUGH
  A bar in a river; as, the overslaugh in the Hudson River. Bartlett.
• RIVERED
  Supplied with rivers; as, a well rivered country.
• HUDSONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Hudson's Bay or to the Hudson River; as, the Hudsonian curlew.
• RIVERHOOD
  The quality or state of being a river. "Useful riverhood." H. Miller.
• DRIVER
  A part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. Specifically: The driving wheel of a locomotive.
• SCREW-DRIVER
  A tool for turning screws so as to drive them into their place. It has a thin end which enters the nick in the head of the screw.
• CONTRIVER
  One who contrives, devises, plans, or schemas. Swift.
• PERIVERTEBRAL
  Surrounding the vertebræ.
• ARRIVER
  One who arrives.
• DEPRIVER
  One who, or that which, deprives.
• DERIVER
  One who derives.
• SHRIVER
  One who shrives; a confessor.
• STRIVER
  One who strives.
• THRIVER
  One who thrives, or prospers.