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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.

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Etymology of 'Overhand'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Overhand" Quotes from Famous Books

... was disbanded, for there was a general disarmament, and on the afternoon after Tinling's departure the entire Jolliffe family engaged in a grand cricket match, when lazy Uncle Lambert came out unexpectedly strong as an overhand bowler. ...

— The Talking Horse - And Other Tales • F. Anstey

... 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

... 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 ...

— What Might Have Been Expected • Frank R. Stockton

... large knob formed on the extremity of a rope, generally by untwisting its ends, and interweaving them regularly among each other; of these there are several sorts, differing in form, size, and name, as diamond knot, kop knot, overhand knot, reef knot, shroud knot, stopper knot, single wall knot, double wall knot. The bowline knot is so firmly made, and fastened to the cringles of the sails, that they must break, or the sails split, before it will slip. (See RUNNING BOWLINE.) The ...

— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth

Words linked to "Overhand" : overhand knot, sport, round-arm, handmade, overarm, oversewn, underhand