Over-handed
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Over-handed is an adjective meaning simple past and past participle of over-hand.
Meaning
simple past and past participle of over-hand.
More Meanings
- Alternative spelling of overhanded.
Example Sentences
Mine drops...like a curveball thrown over-handed by a left-hander.
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.
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.
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;
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include right handed, manyhanded, undextrous, gentlehanded, whitehanded, fair-handed.
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