overmount

adj, verb, noun — 3 senses

overmount

adj

Etymology From over- + mount. Compare surmount.

1

Mounted over something else.

overmount

verb

Etymology From over- + mount. Compare surmount.

1

To tower over; to go or rise higher than.

the pretty purple ground-nut, which, despising its name, overmounts the tallest shrubs1845, Sylvester Judd, Margaret: a Tale of Real and Ideal:

overmount

noun

Etymology From over- + mount. Compare surmount.

1

A piece of shaped cardboard used to prevent the glass of the frame from lying too closely upon an engraving or a picture.

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