Lexic.us

Definition of Overhand

1. Adjective. With hand brought forward and down from above shoulder level. "An overhand stroke"

2. Adjective. Sewn together with overhand stitches (close vertical stitches that pass over and draw the two edges together).

Definition of Overhand

1. n. The upper hand; advantage; superiority; mastery.

2. a. Over and over; -- applied to a style of sewing, or to a seam, in which two edges, usually selvedges, are sewed together by passing each stitch over both.

3. adv. In an overhand manner or style.

Definition of Overhand

1. Adjective. Executed with the hand brought forward and down from above the shoulders ¹

2. Adjective. Sewn with close, vertical stitches that draw the edges of a seam together ¹

3. Adjective. (context: of a loop in rope) With the working part on top of the standing part ¹

4. Adverb. In such a manner ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Overhand

1. to sew with short, vertical stitches [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overhand

overgrown overgrownness overgrows overgrowth overgrowth syndromes overgrowths overhair overhairs overhale overhaled

overhales overhall overhalled overhalling overhalls overhand (current term) overhand knot overhand knots overhand stitch overhanded

overhanding overhandle overhandled overhandles overhandling overhands overhanging overhanging restoration overhangs

Literary usage of Overhand

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Basket Ball and Indoor Baseball for Women by Helen Frost, Charles Digby Wardlaw (1920)
"There are three ways of throwing a ball: the overhand, the underhand, the side-arm. 2. The overhand Throw.—The overhand throw is the most difficult one for ..."

2. Elements of Mining by George Joseph Young (1916)
"The methods discussed are: 1. Underhand stoping. 2. overhand stoping/OP? ... Combined overhand and underhand stoping. Open stopes. 4. Square-set stoping „. ..."

3. Ore Mining Methods: Comprising Descriptions of Methods of Support in by Walter Richard Crane (1917)
"The methods of stoping employed in the mines of the United States and, in fact, throughout the mining world may be outlined as follows: 1. overhand Stoping. ..."

4. The Witwatersrand Goldfields, Banket & Mining Practice: With an Appendix on by Samuel John Truscott (1907)
"overhand Stoping.—Where the reef dips steeply, this method of stoping is not so largely employed on the Rand as the former method, because the native can ..."

5. Basket Ball by Edwin J. Mather, Elmer Dayton Mitchell (1922)
"This pass is harder to guard from behind than an overhand pass, and also, ... overhand PASS The overhand pass can also be made with one or two hands, ..."

6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"These methods involve motions of the limbs which may he conveniently designated as the breast or front stroke, the side stroke, the overhand stroke, ..."

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