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Gull vs Overreach - What's the difference?

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Gull is a related term of overreach.


As nouns the difference between gull and overreach

is that gull is (soccer) a player, supporter or other person connected with while overreach is the act of striking the heel of the fore foot with the toe of the hind foot; -- said of horses.

As a verb overreach is

to reach above or beyond in any direction.

gull

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) gulle, ultimately from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A seabird of the genus Larus or of the family Laridae.
    • Synonyms
    * (seabird) mew, seagull

    Etymology 2

    Perhaps from an obsolete term

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) A cheating trick; a fraud.
  • * 1599 ,
    • BENEDICK. [Aside] I should think this a gull , but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it: knavery cannot, sure, hide itself in such reverence.
  • One easily cheated; a dupe.
    • Synonyms
    * (dupe) See also

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To deceive or cheat.
  • * Dryden
    • The vulgar, gulled into rebellion, armed.
  • * Coleridge
    • I'm not gulling him for the emperor's service.
  • * 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act IV, Scene I, verse 162-165
    • speak your curses out
    Against me, who would sooner crush and grind
    A brace of toads, than league with them to oppress
    An innocent lady, gull an Emperor
  • (US, slang) To mislead.
  • (US, slang) To trick and defraud.
    • Derived terms
    * gullible * gullibility

    References

    External links

    * (wikipedia) * (Larus) ----

    overreach

    English

    Noun

    (overreaches)
  • The act of striking the heel of the fore foot with the toe of the hind foot; -- said of horses.
  • The act of extending or reaching too far, overextension.
  • *2010 , Brian Montopoli, CBS News Obama: People Saw "Overreach" in My Actions :
    • But, you know, I'm sympathetic to folks who looked at it and said, 'This is looking like potential overreach .'"

    Verb

  • To reach above or beyond in any direction.
  • To deceive, or get the better of, by artifice or cunning; to outwit; to cheat.
  • * 1594 , , III. ii. 144:
    • We'll overreach the greybeard Gremio,
  • * 1599 , , V. i. 78:
    • This might be / the pate of a politician, which this ass now o'erreaches ; / one that would circumvent God, might it not?
  • To reach too far
  • (of horses) To strike the toe of the hind foot against the heel or shoe of the forefoot.
  • (nautical) To sail on one tack farther than is necessary.
    • (Shakespeare)