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adjective

Overhand adj.

(Sewing) 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.

(Baseball, Cricket, Tennis, etc.) Done (as pitching or bowling) with the hand higher than the elbow, or the arm above, or higher than, the shoulder; as, an overhand pitch; an overhand stroke.

adverb

Overhand adv. In an overhand manner or style.

noun

Overhand n.

The upper hand; advantage; superiority; mastery. "He had gotten thereby a great overhand on me."

(Baseball) A throwing or pitching style that is overhanded; also an overhand (2) pitch.

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Etymology of 'Overhand'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Overhand" Quotes from Famous Books

... of articles of apparel, household utensils, and for the hafting of tools, the cave contained the usual miscellany of prepared fibers and knots (139544) usually of agave fiber. There is also a bundle of unspun hair tied in the center with an overhand knot (139543). The bulk of the miscellaneous cordage is 2-ply cord—each single S-twisted with a final Z-twist. Since the spinning is so uniformly of this twisting, it is highly probable that manufacture of the cordage followed ...

— A Burial Cave in Baja California - The Palmer Collection, 1887 • William C. Massey

... strokes, her smiling head thrown back over her white shoulder, as if luring him to a race. If her smile was a revelation to him, still more so was this first touch of feminine coquetry in her attitude. He pulled eagerly towards her; with a few long overhand strokes she kept her distance, or, if he approached too near, she dived like a loon, coming up astern of him with the same childlike, mocking cry. In vain he pursued her, calling her to stop in her own tongue, and laughingly protested; ...

— Under the Redwoods • Bret Harte

... plate. With the natural need of a strong rough man in anger, to do something forcible, he now clutched his knife overhand, and struck downward with it at the end of every succeeding sentence. As he would have struck with his own clenched fist if there had chanced ...

— Our Mutual Friend • Charles Dickens

... was quite wide at this point, and out near the middle of it he saw Tony's head. The turkey-hunter was swimming hand-overhand, "dog-fashion," for the shore. Behind him was a boat, upside-down, which seemed just on the point of sinking out ...

— What Might Have Been Expected • Frank R. Stockton

... in the river was a dozen yards from the one in distress. With strong, swift, overhand strokes ...

— The Yukon Trail - A Tale of the North • William MacLeod Raine

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