o'er

¹ American

[awr, ohr] / ɔr, oʊr /

preposition

Literary.

contraction of over.

OER ² American

open education(al) resource(s).

o'er British

/ əʊə, ɔː /

preposition

a poetic contraction of over

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Now with the warm earth o’er thy breast, O wisest of thy kind and best, Forever mayst thou softly rest, In pace, Peter!

From Seattle Times • Mar. 3, 2023

So we rotated guard duty: All through the night o’er the Ram parts we watched.

From Washington Post • Jul. 28, 2022

All we go down to the dust; and, weeping, o’er the grave,

From Washington Times • Apr. 16, 2021

It would also be neat if it was, you know, a decent song, which a citizen could sing without crashing into an o’er or a thee, or being asked to pole vault across octaves.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 2020

After they was ’zactly forty-nine days old, Pap said me and him had to look ’em o’er to see if there was a hunting dog in the bunch.

From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis

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