Anagrams of: OVERLARDING

• greyish Old World turtledove with a black band around the neck; often caged

• Eurasian pigeon with white patches on wings and neck

• avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)

• escape, either physically or mentally

• practice evasion

• use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid

• traveling or passing over land

• turn up, loosen, or remove earth

• protective covering consisting, for example, of a layer of boards applied to the studs and joists of a building to strengthen it and serve as a foundation for a weatherproof exterior

• a layer of decorative material (such as gold leaf or wood veneer) applied over a surface

• put something on top of something else

• kill by lying on