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What does o' er mean?

Updated: 3/22/2024
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15y ago

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it's a contraction of over , pronounced oar as in boat, used only by poets and other mad Englishmen.

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"O'er" is a poetic or archaic contraction for "over." It is used as a shorter form of the word in poetry or older texts to maintain a specific meter or rhyme scheme.

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