overwalk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overwalks
Etymology: From over- + walk.
Senses: examples: text: Ground was broken for a new Central Library Building in Birmingham, Alabama, to cost $8,300,000, including an overwalk connection to the existing building across the street.
ref: 1983, The ALA Yearbook, volume 8, page 76:
text: I know in our own State, for example, our State transportation board addressed a pedestrian overwalk at one of our major intersections last week, in the hopes that there would be additional funding available and might be limited if it were in that category, but if it were in discretionary funding, obviously, something we could address.
ref: 1993, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Economic Development, Investing in America's Infrastructure, page 269:
text: A walking stick is in her right hand, and a second, which the woman conveniently keeps next to the fence overwalk, is seen just to the right.
ref: 1997, Orville Winston Hampton, Rock Quarries and the Manufacture, Trade, and Uses of Stone Tools and Symbolic Stones in the Central Highlands of Irian Jaya, Indonesia, page 116:
text: At the next level, he bolted down another hallway and through an arch onto an overwalk connecting with the domed edifice.
ref: 2012, Neil Lynn Wise, To Rouse Leviathan:
text: On the ground level with us were four sets of tracks with overwalks and underwalks between them. Some of the overwalks led to a set of 4 overhead hanging train lines that curved into and out of the station.
ref: 2019, Jerri O'Powell, Andrean, Deslar & Paper Gods:
glosses: A pedestrian bridge or elevated walkway that allows one to walk over a road, stream, or other obstacle, or between the upper stories of buildings.
examples: text: Note safety handrails on overwalk across conveyor system.
ref: 1967, New York (State). Dept. of Labor, The Industrial Bulletin of the Department of Labor, page 9:
text: The stair-elevator tower accommodates also vertical services, is connected directly with box clusters or overwalks, and serves as the stabilizer of the complex.
ref: 1977, August E. Komendant, Contemporary Concrete Structures, page 532:
text: There was no way for them to get up into this overwalk, so he was good.
ref: 2011, Don Pendleton, Grave Mercy:
glosses: An elevated walkway that provides passage above the main area of a facility; a catwalk.
examples: text: Pedestrian traffic over the dune can cause the loss of vegetation anchoring the dune unless a dune overwalk, following the natural contour of the dune, is provided.
ref: 1980, Virginia. Marine Resources Commission, Coastal Primary Sand Dune Guidelines, page 11:
text: Total cost included indirect expenses, as well as all materials associated with tube installation and construction of the timber pedestrian overwalk.
ref: 1994, Alternative Technologies in Beach Preservation, page 386:
text: In an effort to protect the new dune, the city informed oceanfront residents that they would have to construct dune overwalks to reach the beach in front of their house, alleging that it was a state requirement (which state officials flatly deny).
ref: 1996, Orrin H. Pilkey, Katharine L. Dixon, The Corps and the Shore, page 113:
text: A woodchip trail (which tied the whole community) led into a line of conifers and down a winding slope beside a wood overwalk to oceanside.
ref: 2005, Ken Gunther, Lilith: A Biography, page 425:
glosses: A walkway placed slightly above the ground in an ecologically vulnerable location so that pedestrians can walk through the area without causing damage.