Definition of call something over in English:

phrasal verb

• Read out a list of names to determine those present.

  ‘a gentleman proceeded to call over the names of the jury’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Under the new Act for regulating the trial of controverted elections, you will, in the discharge of your duty, call over the names in the alphabetical list of Members.’
  • ‘In calling over the list every name is repeated, although three-fourths or more of the boys, whose names are called over, are present.’
  • ‘It has been the practice of the House of Commons, on occasions of sufficient importance, to order that the House be called over at a future day.’
  • ‘Charles Mansfield, our third lieutenant, came on deck, and called the list over.’