overhand
Adjective
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Adjective
overhand (not comparable)
- Executed with the hand brought forward and down from above the shoulders
- (sewing) Sewn with close, vertical stitches that draw the edges of a seam together
- (of a loop in rope) With the working part on top of the standing part.
- (masonry) Laid such that the surface of the wall to be jointed is on the opposite side of the wall from the mason, requiring the mason to lean over the wall to complete the work.
- (mining) Done from below upward.
- (with the hand from above) overarm
overhand (plural overhands)
- The upper hand; advantage; superiority; mastery.
- He had gotten thereby a great overhand on me.
overhand (not comparable)
- In an overhand manner
overhand (overhands, present participle overhanding; past and past participle overhanded)
- Sew using an overhand stitch.
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