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
- I've never climbed anything on that wall -- the overhand is pretty severe and I am pretty heavy.
- These are basically the same stitch, called overhand if it is perpendicular and whipping if it is slanted.
- -- By far the greatest bulk of ore is broken overhand, that is broken upward from one level to the next above.
- To escape the wrath of the hornets, Peter descended the tree "overhand," which being interpreted means that he dropped and caught the limbs as he went down so as to decrease the speed.
- Regardless, I'm sure we can all agree that unless you've got a cat that likes to play with the roll, "overhand" is the only, correct, way to put in a roll of toilet paper. people could stand to do this.
- I thought at first that getting out of bed before my eyes are fairly open, and turning myself into a circus acrobat by doing every kind of overhand, foot, arm and leg contortion that the mind of cruel man could invent to torture a human being with, would kill me before I had been at it a week, but when I read on page sixteen that as soon as all that horror was over I must jump right into the tub of cold water,
- I thought at first that getting out of bed before my eyes are fairly open and turning myself into a circus actor by doing every kind of overhand, foot, arm and leg contortion that the mind of cruel man could invent to torture a human being with, would kill me before I had been at it a week, but when I read on page sixteen that as soon as all that horror was over I must jump right into the tub of cold water, I kicked, metaphorically speaking.
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