Overhand

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·adv In an overhand manner or style.

II. Overhand ·noun The upper hand; advantage; superiority; mastery.

III. Overhand ·adj Done (as pitching or bowling) with the hand higher than the elbow, or the arm above, or higher than, the shoulder.

IV. Overhand ·adj 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.

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