What is "overhangs"

Usage examples of "overhangs".

The works themselves are enclosed in a simple but very handsome building of freestone, which has an extended front opening upon a terrace, which overhangs the river: behind the building, and divided from it only by a lawn, rises a lofty wall of solid limestone rock, which has, at one or two points, been cut into, for the passage of the water into the noble reservoir above.

The fall continues nearly a mile, and a beautiful village, called the Little Falls, overhangs it.