Definition: overleap
Source: WordNet (r) 1.7
overleap
v 1: defeat (oneself) by going too far
2: jump across or leap over (an obstacle) [syn: vault]
3: leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?";
"The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"
[syn: neglect, pretermit, omit, drop, miss, leave
out, overlook] [ant: attend to]
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Overleap \O`ver*leap"\, v. t. [AS. oferhle['a]pan. See Over, and Leap.] To leap over or across; hence, to omit; to ignore. ``Let me o'erleap that custom.'' --Shak.
