overhand

Plural: overhands

Adjective

• with hand brought forward and down from above shoulder level
  • "an overhand pitch"
  • "an overhand stroke"

Adjective Satellite

• sewn together with overhand stitches (close vertical stitches that pass over and draw the two edges together)

Adj

• Executed with the hand brought forward and down from above the shoulders.
• Sewn with close, vertical stitches that draw the edges of a seam together.
• With the working part on top of the standing part.
• 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.
• Done from below upward.

Noun

• The upper hand; advantage; superiority; mastery.

Adv

• In an overhand manner

Verb

Verb Forms: overhanded, overhanding, overhands

• To sew with short, vertical stitches over an edge.
• Sew using an overhand stitch.

Examples

• an overhand shuffle of a deck of cards
• She managed to overhand a connection between two distant words on the Scrabble board.

Synonyms

overarm, overhanded, oversewn

Antonyms

underhand

Anagrams of overhand