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vb. to be threatening, to be imminent
Usage examples of "hang over".
Also allows the tip of the mast to hang over the hold, so that they can drop a line and haul cargo out.
Smoke drifts lazily from a metal chimney to hang over the zigzag roof of asbestos and glass.
But he had deliberately incurred the hindrance, having made up his mind that it was now time for him to adorn his life with the graces of female companionship, to irradiate the gloom which fatigue was apt to hang over the intervals of studious labor with the play of female fancy, and to secure in this, his culminating age, the solace of female tendance for his declining years.
When I am satisfied, I will use a longer cable, and hang over the edge of yon cliff.
On the first of May before sunrise the women of the village go out and gather from the woods leaves and branches from willow trees, and weave them into a wreath which they hang over the stable door, affirming that all the cattle will then remain unhurt and safe from witchcraft for a whole year.
She let him hang over the cliff a few seconds, then added, ‘.
Hopalong was hardened to awful sights and at his best was not an artistic soul, but the villainous riot of fiery crimson, gaudy yellow, and pugnacious and domineering green which flaunted defiance and insolence from the stranger's neck caused his breath to hang over one count and then come double strong at the next exhalation.