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Overling

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A superior. rare

    "But the idle-minded overlings who quibbled while they died, …"

  2. 2
    A ruler; master. UK, dialectal

Etymology

From over + -ling on analogy with underling, or as a revived or dialectal term from Middle English overling (“a superior”). By surface analysis, over + -ling.

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