OVERLAUNCH

Etymology

Verb

overlaunch (third-person singular simple present overlaunches, present participle overlaunching, simple past and past participle overlaunched)

(shipbuilding, transitive) To run the butts or scarphs of planks or pieces of timber to a certain distance beyond the adjacent ones, in order to strengthen the work.

Source: Wiktionary



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An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.

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