Meanings
- alternativenot comparableAlternative spelling of overhanded.
A piece of rope has an eye spliced in one end, and several over-handed knots made on the bight, at equal distances from each other.
1864, William N. Brady, The Kedge-anchor: Or, Young Sailors' Assistant, page 682 more examples
Under-handed, over-handed, back-handed, left-handed, right-handed, standing at grotesque angles and almost standing on their heads, the Wonders fired the ball into the basket.
2008, Dick Burdette, The Waterloo Wonders, →ISBN, page 87If we enquire into the causes of this poverty and reduction of wages, we are met on every side by complaints of 'over-population,' 'redundancy of labour,' 'want of demand,' 'the labour-market over-handed,' 'gluts,' 'panics,' &c., and, notwithstanding, that over-population and over-production are relative questions, they are practically carried out in the most abstracted sense of the term.
1850, Thomas Cooper, Cooper's Journal: Or, Unfettered Thinker and Plain Speaker for Truth., page 94
- alternativenot comparableAlternative spelling of overhanded.
Mine drops...like a curveball thrown over-handed by a left-hander.
2013, Mel Marmer, Bill Nowlin, Clem Comly, The Year of the Blue Snow: The 1964 Philadelphia Phillies, →ISBN, page 351 more example
I have been working in this country and in England, and we build over-handed if we get the stone as good binders ; without proper binders it would not be a proper way to construct a wall;
1874, New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs, page 109
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of over-hand
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