To put over Meaning, Definition & Usage

Definitions
  1. . (a) To place (some one) in authority over; as, to put a general over a division of an army. (b) To refer .
    For the certain knowledge of that knowledge of that truth put you o'er to heaven and to my mother. Shak.
    (c) To defer; to postpone; as, the court put over the cause to the next term. (d) To transfer (a person or thing) across; as, to put one over the river .
Definitions
  1. (Naut.), to sail over or across.

Webster 1913