A section of aroad orpath thatcrossesover an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc.
The homeless man had built a little shelter, complete with cook-stove, beneath a concreteoverpass.
2018 February,Robert Draper, “They are Watching You—and Everything Else on the Planet: Technology and Our Increasing Demand for Security have Put Us All under Surveillance. Is Privacy Becoming just a Memory?”, inNational Geographic[1], Washington, D.C.:National Geographic Society,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on14 June 2018:
By visible evidence, this Saturday morning is a comparatively placid one. Earlier in the week a young man had died after being stabbed in a flat, and from theoverpass at Archway Road, darkly referred to as “suicide bridge,” another man had jumped to his death.
Thou who didst fling on Troia's every tower / The o'er-roofing snare, that neither great thing might, / Nor any of the young ones,overpass / Captivity's great sweep-net—[…]
[1878], William Morris,The Decorative Arts: Their Relation to Modern Life and Progress[…], London: Ellis and White,[…],→OCLC,page21:
For as was the land, such was the art of it while folk yet troubled themselves about such things; it strove little to impress people either by pomp or ingenuity: not unseldom it fell into commonplace, rarely it rose into majesty; yet was it never oppressive, never a slave’s nightmare or an insolent boast: and at its best it had an inventiveness, an individuality, that grander styles have neveroverpassed:[…]
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