overcatch

verb — 2 senses

overcatch

verb

Etymology From over- + catch.

1

UK, Dialectal To overtake.

She sent an arrow forth with mighty draught , That in the very dore him overcaught1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

2

To catch too many; to overfish.

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