overhand
IPA: ˈoʊvɝhænd
noun
- The upper hand; advantage; superiority; mastery.
verb
- Sew using an overhand stitch.
adjective
- 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.
adverb
- In an overhand manner
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Examples of "overhand" in Sentences
- Setting up for an overhand serve.
- This can be done overhand or underhand.
- The serve may be hit under or overhand.
- They throw it overhand as hard as they can.
- Feed the bight 'through' the overhand knot.
- There are a number of ways to tie the Overhand knot.
- The serviceman is not allowed to serve overhand though.
- The cinquefoil is the closed version of the double overhand knot.
- An 'overhand shuffle' is a common method of shuffling playing cards.
- The double overhand knot is the opened equivalent of the cinquefoil knot.
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