Overhang is valid Scrabble Word

Is overhang a scrabble word?
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8 letters word
15 points in Scrabble
17 points in WWF

Definitions for OVERHANG in dictionary:

VERB:

NOUN:

a part of something that extends or hangs over something else
a quantity of securities or commodities large enough to make prices fall if offered for sale.
In a general sense, that which just out or projects; a projection; also, the measure of the projection; as, the overhang is five feet.

Specifically: The projection of an upper part (as a roof, an upper story, or other part) of a building beyond the lower part; as, the overhang of a roof, of the eaves, etc.
The portion of the bow or stem of a vessel that projects over the water beyond the water line.
The projection of a part beyond another part that is directly below it, or beyond a part by which it is supported; as, the overhang of a shaft; i. e., its projection beyond its bearing.
projection that extends beyond or hangs over something else
overhanging part

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to hang or project over

Words related to OVERHANG

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Words that contain OVERHANG

overhangs16 overhanging19

How to use OVERHANG in a sentence

In a still further space of time, I had come so close to the mountains, that they appeared to overhang me.
The mountains overhang the roadway on one side and drop far below on the other.
Then, for a thousand feet or more, the rise is at an angle of about 45 degrees, while occasionally masses of rock stand out prominently and overhang the river.
The foundations of an ancient building, probably a temple, overhang it, and tall poplars and sycamores cover it with impenetrable shade.
It extends from the River Orontes, which washes its walls, up the slope of the mountain to the crags of gray rock which overhang it.
A few evergreen oaks, in places, pleasantly overhang the water.
A little higher up some willows and an elm overhang from the other side.
Byrd was a Rosy and Red-Headed Gentleman, with a slight Overhang below the Shirt Front.
This in time leads to a tumour-like enlargement, and causes the structures of the coronet to greatly overhang the hoof.
They are surrounded by a grove of mighty trees, whose boughs overhang a crumbling wall intended to protect them.

The graceful buildings which overhang the Grand Canal are exactly fitted for an oligarchy, sure of its own authority and loved of the people.
Many of these rocks are left in their natural position, and overhang the houses which have been built among them.
Far below them, on the edge of a great boulder which rose from the broken water and seemed to overhang it, stood the rescued sailor.
That earthquake helped to make the high hills which overhang Manchester and Preston, and all the manufacturing county of Lancashire.
The loneliness and general air of desertion that overhang the place seemed more intensified by the war than ever.
As with all sheer precipices, the lip on which we stood seemed slightly to overhang, so that in order to see one had apparently to crane away over, quite off balance.
The Sierra Madre was now so close that the tilted masses of its rocks seemed to overhang our tents threateningly where we had pitched them at its foot.
The empty watercourse provided an overhang, not quite a cave, but shelter.
He crept cautiously in under the overhang of the bank and searched about for a foothold.
It was built under an overhang of limestone so that the smoke in the moonlight would be lost against the grey face of the rock.
From base to summit the ledge was probably fifty feet in height and was so far tilted over on the western side as to have an overhang of at least fifteen.
Some of the large outside leaves are removed, and any points of leaves that immediately overhang the flower are cut off.
The guns were run out on to this platform, so that the muzzles cleared the overhang.
Dug-outs were cleared, and many officers were taken, where lofty cliffs overhang the Tigris.
For the first time, fellow-citizens, badges of mourning shroud the columns and overhang the arches of this hall.
The mountains that overhang the city are fortified with our great guns, which could rain shells upon the city without danger of a successful reply.
As I neared the sea on the other side great crags began to overhang the path, which was, of course, no path, but merely the line of least resistance through the woods.
One can still hear belated drops falling from the branches which overhang the wall.
The three storeys overhang one another, and are faced with shingles.
Let the Roman camp overhang the gates of Carthage rather than that we should again behold the rampart of the enemy from our walls.
The first set is placed with the concave sides up, and runs from the ridge pole to a point a few inches below the framework, so as to overhang it somewhat.
Masses of luxuriant foliage seemed to overhang the clear blue water, and to be reflected in its depths, while the white walls above just caught the first flush of the rising sun.
I am writing this on the day after the action in my favourite lurking-place by the side of the river under the evergreens and big weeping willows that overhang the sluggish water.
I command you to overhang the night with a thick fog, and lead these quarrelsome lovers so astray in the dark, that they shall not be able to find each other.
When the heaviest part of the engine is so far from the vertical shaft as to overhang the casing on one side, there is apt to be an objectionable tremor.

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