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o'er

1

[ awr, ohr ]

preposition

Literary.
  1. contraction of over.


OER

2

o'er

/ əʊə; ɔː /

preposition

  1. a poetic contraction of over
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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All we go down to the dust; and, weeping o'er the grave we make our song:

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Darkness the curtain drops o'er life's dull scene:

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“Oh, I see,” he cried, “‘From o'er the threshold’ means that we must stand on the wall directly above the gatehouse.”

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It was like I was watching some other boy ’stead of me picking Pap up and going o'er to Spangler with my pa in his arms.

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The singer stopped singing during the line "o'er the ramparts we watched," Time magazine reported, to peek at his hand to see what the next words were.

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