Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To leap over; skip over; omit.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To pass over by, or as by a hop; to skip over; hence, to overpass.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive, obsolete To leap over; skip over; omit.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English overhippen, equivalent to over- +‎ hip (“to hop”).

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