What does over-handed mean?
Over-handed means Alternative spelling of overhanded..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Alternative spelling of overhanded..
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.
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.
If 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.
Mine drops...like a curveball thrown over-handed by a left-hander.
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;
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Over-handed means Alternative spelling of overhanded..
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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.
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