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Overhand

adjective
1.
With hand brought forward and down from above shoulder level.  Synonyms: overarm, overhanded.  "An overhand stroke"
2.
Sewn together with overhand stitches (close vertical stitches that pass over and draw the two edges together).  Synonym: oversewn.



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"Overhand" Quotes from Famous Books



... fly as they struck out in overhand strokes, shouting and laughing, cheered on by Miss Elting and Margery, on the other side by the irrepressible Tommy, who was dancing up and down on the shore, shouting and clapping her hands in great glee! The swimmers landed, laughing merrily as they ...
— The Meadow-Brook Girls in the Hills - The Missing Pilot of the White Mountains • Janet Aldridge
... Miss Petty done got me so sympathizin', but now I'se shore rattled an' I'se gwin' ter find out fer sartin. Come on yo' Jumbo! Wo'k yo' laigs fer fair," and under touch of the spur the big horse broke into a gait which bade fair to speedily overhand the scapegraces, providing ...
— A Dixie School Girl • Gabrielle E. Jackson


Words linked to "Overhand" :   sport, round-arm, hand-crafted, underhand, handmade, overhand pitch, athletics, overhanded


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