[], (Noun)

Definitions:
- An instance of overblowing something; (Metallurgy) a period or instance of overblowing a charge in a blast furnace.


Phrases:

Origin:
early 18th century. From overblow

[], (Verb)

Definitions:
- Of the wind, etc.: to blow over the surface of. Of snow, sand, etc.: to cover (an animal, area, etc.) by blowing or being blown over.

- To blow (an instrument) too hard or too loudly; to supply wind at too great a pressure to (an organ pipe).

- To manipulate the behaviour of the column of air in (a wind instrument, or an organ pipe) in such a way as to produce a harmonic or overtone instead of the fundamental note. Also (of the instrument or pipe): to produce (a harmonic or overtone) by this means. Also without object or (occasionally) reflexive.

- To subject (a charge in a blast furnace) to an excessive length of blast.

- To exaggerate, overplay.


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English (in an earlier sense). From over- + blow